Her parents’ leather bound first-edition books were the first victims, and why not? There were always blank pages available at the beginning and end and she filled them with pictures of snakes with high heels and earrings.
After she couldn’t get enough of the light spankings from these pre-school pranks and went on to re-do her family’s lovely tapestries in the style she liked best at age six- lots of latex, lots of red. Later she figured maybe destroying the family heirlooms weren’t in anyone’s best interest. But she really liked black and white fanzines and liked to try to draw those portraits of Liz, Dick and Betty- at least when she wasn’t hoping to be on Dick Cavett or Mike Douglas in her fab leopard-wear and gestulating with the stogie in hand.
So instead she discovered Andy Warhol and Peter Max and the joy of Pop Art. It was a revelation to her parents when, during her first visit to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art that a little girl could possibly get them arrested by running up to the famous Georges’ Seurat painting “Sunday In The Park” with a handful of crayons screaming, “Connect the dots!! Connect the dots! I’m gonna do it!!”
After that it was all a blur of glam gigs, “learning experiences” and ultimately, the charm of her childhood near Ithaca, NY, the love of her life which is somewhere out there yet to be discovered , he/she may be reading this right now ! Do I hear dinner ? And a tiny panther.
She survived it all to become the happy hack she is to spend time with you.
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