What is this tale about?Picking Up Gum Wrappers and Every Day Magic? It's about failing on the one hand and then sailing into happier waters and finding the love of my life.This memoir shares about 35 turbulent years of my experience here on the planet. I want to encourage everyone, but especially women, to trust the universe with their dreams as they read how I watched mine manifest, finding true love and living the life of an artist. This book is not instruction, it is exposition, written with an honest pen and rejoicing that possibilities are everywhere.Loyal to my spouse of many years, I gathered the courage and agreed to jettison our beautiful hillside home, our friends, (although many of them came to see what we were doing) and my new studio space in the room under the garage, to try an experiment in a family business. We chose a mobile home park and campground on a creek in Arizona. Twenty-four/seven describes my chores. We survived two horrendous floods of the otherwise peaceful creek, two bouts of litigation (which we won handily) and the minutia of daily dealing with the campers. When we sold the business we parted company. That is when this writer sprouted wings and flew. And this is where the "everyday magic" shows up. I'd tell you more, but I want you to read the book.