Story of Our Lives

Jenny and I met at a reading at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park on May 17, 2000. We both knew Charles Baxter from our college days. Jenny had taken a couple of classes from Charlie at Michigan. I'd met him when he was a visiting writer at George Mason. We hadn't both seen Charlie since before we got married. In fact, we hadn't seen him in a very long time -- not until his recent appearance at Stanford University, where he read from his new book, The Soul Thief, and was as charming and wonderful as ever. It was good to catch up with him after all these years. Here's a blurry photo to commemorate the occasion...