Hey Gang,
First of all, I'm sorry that my comments in 2006 when I transcribed the diary entries do not appear in the posts as they do in my original transcribed documents which are in brackets, bold-face and italics. As in the last part of my April 1 entry in which I make comments about Margie Gonzalez and Chiqui Ramirez, I do this in many posts and there are many to come to be aware that if in brackets, I did not write that in my diary then, but did so when I was transcribing it into my Word processor, realizing what a goose I was but I wanted to remain faithful to what I wrote as a teenager and not delete anything, no matter how stupid or insensitive. It was the girl I was then but how naive we (or maybe just I) all were.
About Me
- Lea
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- I was born in a Japanese concentration camp in Los Baños, Laguna in 1944 and raised in Manila. I spent my grade school years in Maryknoll College and high school years at St. Paul's College of Manila. I spent most of my summer leisure time at the Army Navy Club of Manila. I married a nice American man in 1965 and moved to New York. In 1969, I left New York for Barcelona and lived there 8 years. I returned to the States in 1977 and lived there until 2011. I visit Manila and Barcelona as often as I can. I have a lovely daughter and granddaughter.My father, Hal Bowie, died in Manila in 1974, and my mother, who moved back to Barcelona after his death, died in 1995. I retired from Polytechnic University (now NYU-Poly)in 2011 after 27 years! After moving to Florida I returned to NY after 8 years and now am living again in my first home in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
