Mar 20
*image credit Richard McCoy via http://www.universetoday.com Here’s another excerpt from one of my Paradiso interviews. This one hits particularly close to home for me; I’ll let you know why at the end of the interview. Early Life I’ll start like Dickens: I was born. I was born in Dayton, Ohio. My first event that probably …
Feb 17
Listening and transcribing these tapes is a trip, I tell you what. For one thing, one of the wonderful people whom I interviewed is now dead of cancer, which is a sobering thought. For another, listening to myself at age twenty is fascinating. Six years ago, the summer I got the grant to do the …
Feb 04
Part Two: Success At twenty…oh god. At twenty, success meant that I could make it through the month on my budget of $150 and I wasn’t hungry. That’s what success was then. Budget was $150, it started at $120 and went up to $150 a month, for everything. For rent, food books, entertainment, you name …