My granddaughter, Elizabeth Lee, and me c. 2007.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
MEMORIES
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SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
7 comments:
Your memories are so precious- beautiful kids and family you have. That little brother in the brothers photo looks mighty. Doesn't look like he'd ever miss out on something due to the fact he was the youngest...(if he could help it :-)
Thanks Jen. I am looking pretty determined in that shot with my big brothers.
Yes to the one where we are actually in the airport on our way to Ireland. June 1996 actually.
Caitlin
Thanks Cait.
That's a really amazing set of photos, Michael. And Flynn must be really, really tall.
Well Kevin, he's probably about 6'1" which is "real, real" tall, but does make it seem like he towers over me who used to be six feet in my shoes but probably have shrunk some as after a certain age we are prone to do. I'd guess I'm a little under 5'11' now.
Beautiful photos, quick vivid visits to the past.
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