“I was an inquisitive child. According to my parents, I asked questions about nearly everything; usually at the dinner table and lots of times about sex. This story isn’t about sex. Sorry, folks. What it is about is borders and boundaries, lines, and delineations. The spaces between here and there, now and then, beginnings and endings and how sometimes they blur and merge. Mostly, it’s about love. I often told my parents that I was an alien baby left on their doorstep. I think they believed me.
When I was 8 or 9, my mom Selma, my dad Moish, my sister Jan and I went to a ranch in a part of Pennsylvania that bordered on New York State. I was fascinated with the idea that on each side of a street in that town, was another physical state. After looking to see that no cars were coming, my parents let me stand in the middle, with one foot on either side. How cool was that?
A few years later, on a trip to Canada, when we crossed over in Niagara Falls, I got to test out whether the air felt different in a whole new country. It didn’t, but I liked considering the possibility that it could. Over the years, I traveled mostly in my mind. As an avid reader and curious about the world writer, I would visit possibilities rather than literal destinations. My imagination took me soaring.” – See more at: Overcoming Unexpected Stage Fright
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