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 [...]
Ardis
I have had the same best friend since I was eleven years old. We are about as much alike as any two people could be. Our birthdays are both in December, so we have always told people: “we are twins born eight days apart”, which usually gets a laugh. We met the first [...]
Marge
Marge is at the heart of what I will always remember as our Camelot. She married Tom’s dad a few years before I entered the scene. They created an unusual blended family because their children were all young adults. I was added to the mix and we found ourselves sharing a universe of art, ideas, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]