From This Moment On- Tracking down my shots in the light and the dark

I remember getting the invitation to my aunt’s “Fierce at 40” birthday party in the Bronx in 2003. Shahzad, my boyfriend at the time, noticed how excited I was to attend and to introduce him to her and whoever else. He said he never saw me so excited and giddy before. We took a long train ride from Brooklyn to make it and I know how funny that sounds because I know it's not an incredibly long distance comparatively speaking. But to us city folks who mainly rely on trains to get around, it feels like a trek.  In 1991's “ Hanging with the Homeboys ”,  Doug E. Doug’s character Willie (who lives in the Bronx) is asked to go to Brooklyn for a job interview.  “Brooklyn?!” he exclaims.  “That's like on the other side of the WORLD!”  Now we all know that Brooklyn is not located at the opposite end of the world from the Bronx. They're about 20 miles apart from each other. According to the little globe in my living room "the other side of the world...

10/1/18 On Sunday I received a notification on my phone for Tom Wilson’s new YouTube video, vlogs he posts every now and then. At about minute 8:40 he mentions my name and shows the Gene Kelly postcard I mailed him. I was so surprised and delighted when I heard my name and that he pronounced it correctly too! Gene Kelly and Tom Wilson- two Irish-American artists from Philly evoking all three words in Tom’s podcast title- “big”, “pop”, and “fun”. Like many people, I first knew Tom Wilson as Biff Tannen from "Back to the Future". I was 8 when the first one came out which is the same age my son was when he saw it and became a fan along with me. He was 8 in 2015, the year Marty and Doc time travel “30 years into the future” in part 2, a complete coincidence I assure you. Needless to say, I would love to attend a BTTF convention one day! I think he was very good in all the roles he had to play in that trilogy. A couple years ago I came across his website that fea...