WHEN | WHERE | ME | MY COUNTRY |
May 1954 | Wilmington, Delaware | Some ‘possums and I were born | Cold war, Ike, desegregation, assassinations, man on moon, antiwar demonstrations, civil rights movement, Beatles. |
September 1972 | Brooklyn, NY | Study fine arts at Pratt | Vietnam War over; drugs. |
July 1975 | San Francisco, CA | Study photography; BFA | Watergate |
1977 | Oakland, CA | Fall in love, move in with and marry former professor; Eleni born… | Anti-apartheid rallies in US.; Reaganomics; punk rock. |
1984 | Oakland, CA | Husband & I split up; I move nearby. Continue to produce radio. | Iran-Contra affair. |
1988 | Oakland, CA | Remarry; move to new house; have another baby. Stay in radio. | First signs of global warming. |
1990 | Nevada City, CA | Bad neighborhood = too dangerous so move to the country; divorce. teach radio. | Bush I. Gulf War. Cold War ends w/ dissolution of USSR. NAFTA. Monica. |
Jan – Mar 1995 | Cape Town, SA | Take 5-year-old Molly to live in SA where I produce documentaries and teach radio. | OJ Simpson. |
1997 | NC to Albany, CA. | Take up Irish dance, work in Web. | Internet. |
1999 | Sacramento, CA | Take job at graphic design firm. Irish dance is my life, until I break foot. | Y2K. WTC. Another Bush “elected.” |
2003 | Back to Albany, CA | Freelance in Web & radio; Dad dies; dog dies; boyfriend dumps me; break another foot; crash car; emergency surgery; other major health probs. | Bush Jr. invades Iraq; subprime mortgage scandal; Obama. |
2009 | Dummerston, VT | Enroll at SIT. | Technology permeates all; Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson die. |
Jan-Mar 2010 | Pachuca, MX | Teach and travel. | Strange weather in US. |
2010 | Back to Dummerston | Study study study. | Springtime will come. |
Summer 2010 | Who knows? | Who knows? | Who knows? |