Linda
In September 2001, shortly after the terrorist attacks in New York City, I drove to the Hunters Point area of San Francisco. I was scheduled to read to small children at a daycare center. Even though the city was frozen by fear, I felt it was important to keep my date. I drove through streets [...]
Tom
I met Tom in 1970. I was seventeen and he was the ripe old age of twenty-one. He emailed me on my birthday this year, “I may be one of the few people who remembers your eighteenth birthday.” I laughed and wrote back, “you may be the only person in the world who remembers my eighteenth birthday”.
Tom has [...]
Kristian
In 1980, after two days in labor, I gave birth to a son. Someone told me that we spend nine months worrying about childbirth only to find out it is simply a door that leads us into life as a parent.
My pregnancy was productive. I was about to graduate with honors from college; I studied Spanish [...]
Eric
In the fall of 1979, Tom and I decided to start a family. We lived in southern Illinois in a big wood-hewn house, with a private lake, on seventy acres. We rented the place for $500 a month, which seemed like more than we would ever be able to afford.
I had a vision of finishing my final year [...]