Marty and Gabi, 1970 Exactly forty-three years ago, on a July morning at 7:00 am, Gabi made me a mom. I wasn't quite twenty-one w...

Heroes, 1983 Forty years ago I chose the father of my children . Of course I didn't know then what I know now. I chose him because he w...

Chloë and Jess, 2008 If you ask most people what they've always wanted to do, they haven't done it. Have you? When I was twelve a te...

Tender Buttons is a store selling nothing but ribbons and buttons. It's on 62nd Street very close to Bloomingdales. The Mysterious Book...

Some of my sources in hiding, 2007 "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." ---Albert Einstein Creative is...

Sher and me, Paris, 1969 OK, so it wasn't the Hilton. But it was Paris. Forty years ago today this was where I stayed. It was my first...

Friday 10:00 AM Marty and Dee enter Tattered Cover Book Store LoDo , CO. There's a welcoming feel there, like you're coming back to ...

European Scrapbook 1994 "Keep him talking," was the whispered advice in our German class. Everybody knew that Herr Bruderer w...

Shrewsbury , England We crossed the bridge and entered a warren of twisty roads, following a sign that pointed to the Centre . I glanced do...

The Stars of Our Marriage 1969-2008 "There are many things, I'm sure," she said, "without which we could not live... Bu...

Magazine Cover, Unknown Today I start my 60th year. I'm a 1949-er , born in the first half of the last century...how old does that soun...

Business Card by Amy I've received requests for copies of the speech I gave at BYU Women's Conference May 2nd, on blogging. If you...

Down to work. This was, after all, a business trip. Dee is writing a family history for Clive Client . (Names have been changed.) Clive...

Corn Market in Ledbury, England I'm feeling nostalgic and grateful today. Dee received advice from a wise man twenty years ago that cha...