Photo Gallery from Why Is SHE Still Here?
First, THE MOMENT
that started my life long obsession with comforters.
Photos from the book and more...
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Me and my brilliant big sister, Kerry. I'm not sure we've ever looked more stylish than this.
Me and Mom on a family outing to a different place in the same "middle of nowhere".
This little girl became a CEO. And that CEO is still this little girl. I think the crooked socks really make the look.
The Sloveniens, John and Angela Sterbenz, at their home in NJ.
Grandpa Azzarello, was also the town barber. And... My godfather was the milkman! This made me a sort of royalty in the middle of nowhere!
Mom Grandpa, Me, Dad, a neighbor, Grandma and Kerry on my Slovenien grandparents' farm
little patty's most exotic toy. My grandfather's barber chair (which I still have) sporting his standard "boy" haircut, which every kid in the town had.
A good example of a 1970's playground killer slide.
My fourth grade teacher Adele and me. I am so grateful for her friendship when little patty was getting tortured by the other kids.
My Sicilian Grandfather, Giuseppe making fresh tomato sauce in a washtub in the yard in NJ.
My Sicilian Grandmother Vicenzia in her garden. She wore a dress and stockings every day of her life.
Me and Wendy at 8th grade graduation. We were so excited to be dressed up!
Drill team, usually freezing my pom poms off, but couln't quit because of Mom's "stick with it" rule.
The Infamous Alpine Slide at Action Park in NJ.
My college friends Mike and Nabi building a robot for our senior project in electronic engineering.
Ross cleaned up very nicely... for a friends wedding.
Me doing a demo at a trade show.
Mom and Dad, always laughing.
Jim Davis when I first started working for him.
Me and Jacek (Jack) in the mountains on a bike ride in Colorado.
Me, pretending to be 40, something I have done since I was 8 years old and to be honest, still do.
Scuba diving in the Bahamas.
Hairy Crab in Tokyo. They were not kidding about the hair.
Figure from the book. This chart also implies, no time for people I don't like 🙂
Me on the same marble steps of my university that intimidated me at my interview for an academic scholarship—now with the president and chairman of the board. The scholarship worked out!
Kerry and Me on our way to Bali.
Me and Kerry on our adventure in Bali touring the rice fields.
This was the photo on the front page of the Hindu Business LIne, when I thought my clothes were falling off, because a sari is naturally open on one side of your rib cage.
Wendy and I celebrating our decades long friendship.
Nabi and Mike and I remained friends after college.
My fourth grad teacher Adele and her husband John (my favorite music teacher) came to my book launch for MOVE 40 years later!
Maybe my favorite picture of myself ever. Love scuba diving among the fish!
Me and Al at my book launch for MOVE when i got the store front of Fifth Avenue Barnes and Noble in NY.
My Italian passport. This was a big day after a process that took 8 years from start to finish. Near my new home in Chicago.
I find the effort worth it.
Biking in CA with Jacek (Jack). We never got a picture of both of us and our bikes!
Me in my happy place (pretend home) of Firenze.
Piero and Elena, my Italian biking friends. Piero was very upset about the coffee and the sandwich.
Galileo, my life's muse. I took this photo on the street from the artist Blub. www.blublartesanuotare.com.
little patty finally got her bunk bed over a desk.
Me and Kerry in Slovenia.
Kerry, Me and Dad in Sicily.
Mark and Me at my home in in California.
Me in either Italy, Switzerland or France. I'll never know.
Me and Kerry hiking our 80 mile Tour du Mont Blanc.
Me now... and never too far away from a sofa.
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Listen to little patty…
Even if you are actually unwelcome,
you can still go in.
