My friend was nice enough to tag me, so here's the official "Random Things Post."
The first rule of the game is to post the rules of the game. Here they are:
Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves. People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.All right, here we go.
1. I wanted to be an actress before I wanted to be a writer. My sister took me to see a bunch of Broadway shows when I was a kid, and I was hooked. Although I was in a few school plays and took a couple of drama workshops in high school, I eventually lost interest in it and pursued writing. But I still remember seeing Richard Burton in Equus. Amazing!
2. In the late seventies, I was allegedly acquainted with folks who were alleged members of the IRA. (The Irish Republican Army.) I used to know all the words to the Irish rebel songs, and attended more than my share of Gaelic Football games right here in the USA. Am I making this up? Do you think I'd answer that question?
3. I should have been born around 1925, because I love clothes, music, and architecture from 1925-1945.
4. My mother wanted to be a writer but never got around to it. Instead, she took care of her hubby and three daughters, and stayed busy with politcs/government. She was a local politician in the sixties and seventies. She had very strong views on mostly everything. So I guess you now know where I inherited my love for reading/writing, and my opinionated, cynical attitude. She was very cool. You would have liked her. If blogs were around back then, hers would have been
the one to read.
5. When I was 12, I was a cheerleader (!) and our school cheerleading team ranked 12th in the NYC metro area, which I seem to recall was a very big deal back then.
6. I liked to chit chat (big surprise, huh?) in school, so I got in trouble often. The teachers and I had a love/hate relationship because I was a handful, but I got good grades. I grew bored at my school, so I switched to an eclectic, artsy public high school for my 11th and 12th grade. It was a "magnet" school, and they had classes like "The Poetry of Rock and Roll," and, "Russian Literature Masters," and "Great American Films."
7. I have a huge list of things I'd like to accomplish someday and it's growing, although I'm not getting any younger. Among the things on that list are: reading all of the books on my list, finishing all of my unfinished novels, tracing my ancestry (which would probably take years,) learning how to fence, traveling around the world for a year, learning enough Greek for bible study, running a sanctuary for homeless animals....Well, I can go on and on about that. We'll leave it there for now.
That's all the random tidbits I'm willing to share. I had to be careful that I wouldn't get myself in trouble with any governmental agencies, domestic or foreign.
“There might be a story down at the Gare du Nord.”
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