k and i discuss her grandmother, irish immigrants, growing up in new york city, her apartment building in manhattan, her best friend lillian, her first 'bf' joseph, italian grub, irish grub, polish grub, pierogis, the football game du jour, and how children appreciate their experiences differently than adults.

handyman al makes an appearance, to k's surprise. 

k asks where monica is, and i brag a little about her trip to business trip to southeast asia with the leader of the free world. 

big stuff is happening.

cheers,
cml

raw convo 1: 03/11/2012

on our way to the dentist's office k and i discuss an incident that occurred during her time as secretary at st. malachy school, comforting a young student, and the infamous sister amata. 

i walk k into the office and she greets the receptionist. 

raw convo: 20/12/2012

k's children (terry, mary, dennis, john, phil, susy), annette, vic, k, and i on the front porch of the homestead. on a summer day, k liked little more than to sit in the sun and enjoy the simple beauty she found all around her. 

here, the six surviving siblings reminisce about their trip to ireland for k's 75th birthday. k chimes in briefly, as does my mother annette. susy drops an f-bomb in front of k. we learn that whiskey is a clear liquid. dennis remembers the whitest kidz u know. innisfree and inishmore are mentioned, and i neglect to connect them to martin mcdonagh. vic wonders where john has gone.

raw convo: 29/06/2013

in which, while celebrating her son dennis' 57th birthday, k briefly mentions her starring role in her high school theater's production of the story of florence nightingale. mike lays the early groundwork on k. andrew realizes how old his parents were when they had him. age, time, marriage and birth dates are discussed for a little too long. we engage in the patented lee pastime of talking about food while eating other food while dennis criticizes other people's cooking. 

k arches her back a little when she mishears dennis call her 'creaky.' dennis relaxes his lenten abstinence as he approaches sixty. i awkwardly hum an unknown tune too close to the mic. we talk some more food-the bonne femme omelette from the runcible spoon in bloomington, k's ever-present sweet-tooth, bucket list buffalo wings-and dennis criticizes an omelette with no cheese.

benign gossip about cousins' college living situations. the end.

christopher m lee