Mom alone in Hayward home with tapestry in background destroyed by fire eventually and the ceramic sea shell which survived both fires years later, but broke and had to be glued back together by me.
Category Archives: California
Family Visit during California Trip
20070118 JAH JMW AMH summersaulting GBH visit BHM and MSH at Country Lane COMBINED
Trampoline and Goats in Oakland Hills
While visiting California, friends from Provincetown Family Week Alexandra and Lily got to enjoy the trampoline at Lily’s dad’s house, with goats in the background up the hill.
Joe visits California
To move into our 5th floor walkup in New York, I had pre-arranged to bring Snowball to my brother, who had just lost his dog Fifi. It was also a good excuse to see my newborn niece again.
California Visit January 2006
October California Visit
Circa 1985 Interview with Michelle Heilman and Jeff Brown
Probably taken at my birthday party in July 1985, so that would have been between my junior and senior years of high school. Michelle had probably just graduated as she was a year ahead of me. Jeff is his usual contrived, macho self making a homophobic remark to me (yawn) — but the wannabe bully showed up to my birthday party, after all. My sister then proceeds in another distorted clip to do the same to my little brother, who takes it in stride.
My Kindergarten Photo
I’m estimating September 1973 this was taken. I went to Hillview Crest, in Hayward, California, for kindergarten. Fortunately my parents had started teaching me English, because even though I was born in San Pedro, California, I started talking when we were living in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (my mother was from Calabria).
