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Approaching sixty, just divorced, freshly disillusioned and leaving behind a business of 34 years. On top of all that, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and subsequently overmedicated. What’s a gal to do? I went a little Jack Kerouac, packed up my car and told everyone I was going away for a while and went on the road to nowhere in particular.

I wandered around California to do some soul searching. Most of the things I had spent my life pursuing ended up not having a whole lot of meaning for me. So much of me had gone into a construction business that I ran with my ex-husband and I was practically a professional consumer. By the time I came back from my road trip over a month later, I realized that I really wanted to open my own little store and combine the two things I put so much energy into--business and shopping--and made a new road out of what appeared to be two dead ends.

You see, I don’t want or need more stuff myself, but I’m still very good at making finds that other people will want as gifts. I look for the kind of things that are good for brightening a day and hopefully become part of a story. Stuff is just stuff, but stuff that becomes part of a story becomes a memory that you keep forever.