This compilation of stories was written alternatively and chronologically by a couple who lived on three continents in the decade between 1956 and 1966. Eric Ericson writes of his search for oil in the jungles of Bolivia during communist agitation, the Basque mountains of northern Spain under the dictatorship of Generalissimo Franco, and Nigeria at the dawn of Nigerian Independence and prior to the Biafran War. Gulf Oil's Okan I was the first off-shore discovery in Nigeria and produced one billion barrels of oil by the year 2000. Libby Ericson tells of raising their two sons, and giving birth to their third, in difficult and challenging places and situations, and of the generosity and kindness always found in these very different cultures. Eric retired from Gulf Oil in 1981, began his own consulting business in Boulder, Colorado, and continues his keen interest in the oil and gas industry. They moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1995 where Libby pursues her love of art. They spend their summers in the Colorado Rockies near where they met at the University of Colorado.
Impact is a loving, if occasionally wry, look at the safety cards that air travelers inevitably encounter and stuff away behind their in-flight magazines. It entwines graphic and aviation history, and it traces these icons of universal design from the kitschy - for Pan-Am's Flying Clipper in the 1930s - to the sanitized pictograms used on today's jumbo jets. Taken from their seatbacks and gathered together here, the cards of Design for Impact offer a humorous look at a basic - and urgent - form of visual communication."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A friend calls it "brain candy". It is; humor, romance, whimsy and pretty much everything else. It is the intersection of life and art. It is a collection of more than 100 poems whose purpose (if they have one) is to let you know that someone understands, provoke laughter, or thought; or feel and see through someone else's eyes. They have been described as "a sweet slice of life." Whose end result is "I feel smoothed by this".
William has amnesia and needs a quiet place that doesn't remind him of his past. Samantha needs help with the work load. She falls first as she pieces together the horrors of William's past. William feels it too, but he's married; he knows it. If he could only remember he can return home. Sam wishes he would remember too, but she doesn't know what that remembering will do to him. Can she weave a net of love around him strong enough to catch him when he does? She wishes she knew what that looks like. Can William let her?
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