QUESTION:

What's your claim to fame?

That 15 minutes of fame you hear about? How everyone sooner or later gets a small allocation of time where they are in the limelight of life's exhibitionism...

I been there several times. A TV commercial in my mid-teens. Guest appearances on variety shows. Part of a family documentary centered around my brother and by default, the family. I feature in a recently published NF book (as the rebel sister of- who'd have thought). Newspaper headlines protesting this or that. Public awards. Talk-back radio to try retrieve personal items stolen from me... Pictures in the Social Pages... there's probably more.

None of the above are 'claims to fame' from my perspective however. Never, in any instance did I feel it was MY time or MY thing.

What's my time or thing?

Something other than mere appearance and a public mention. Who knows.

Now my dad... he made the nightly news. We'd been holidaying up North and swimming in... shark water! A helicopter was brought in to 'guide' the large sharks out to deeper water, and a TV crew came to film the drama. They chose to interview my father- whose lack of English is renowned:

"BIG fish! Big shark, this big!" (Arms outstretched.) "He nearly eat us!"

That had been cool.

You get your 15 minutes yet? Was it memorable?