Editor’s note: To give you a chance to get to know our writers
better, we’ve asked them to respond to some questions. In coming weeks,
we’ll be posting their responses, which will always be available as a
link from their contributor biography page. Here’s Nell Minow.
The Movie Love Questionnaire
Where did you grow up, and what was it like?
I
grew up in a semi-rural small town called Chula Vista (San Diego
County), a place where the sidewalk did end and dirt gave way to fields
and houses without lawns. Just two blocks away from my house was a
tomato field that belonged to a friend, another Japanese American family.
We
used to sit in front of their house during the annual Founders’ Day
parade, Fiesta de la Luna. We loved the horses and my sister would later
be marching in the high school band for that parade.
A
man with a goat and a pet raccoon watched over a commercial flower
field just beside the tomato fields. Sometimes we could get nearly spent
cut blooms to take home to our mothers.
From
time to time, we would get in the car to go off the paved roads and
onto the bumpy roller coaster-like …read more