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CHAPTER IX

The Kids

EVEN THOUGH IT means jumping ahead a little bit, I think this is a good time to talk about all three of our children.

As I just noted, Melissa was born in 1957. Dan joined us May 24, 1960, and Allison came along ten years later in 1970, which has led me frequently to refer to her as our “caboose.” Allison has insisted over the years (jokingly I think!) that she must have been a “mistake,” but I think we have finally convinced her that nothing could be further from the truth. These are three wonderful kids who are truly different one from the other, which seems often to be the case with families. But they have several important things in common. They are bright, witty, and loving. We love being together and we have great fun when we are.

Melissa, a pediatrician, is involved in medical consulting in fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. She and her husband, Ted, live in Mill Valley, California, where Ted is involved in the executive search business with Jackowitz & Co. Their son, Sam, is at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and the family’s only redhead, May, attends The Urban School in San Francisco and is a rabid San Francisco Giants fan.

Dan and his lovely Bolivian wife, Eliana, now live in La Quinta, California, with Eliana’s daughter and Dan’s stepdaughter, Almita. Happily, this is just five minutes away from where Marilyn and I live in the wintertime, and we are delighted to have them close by. Dan and Eliana both work with Mechem Media, a company that Dan and I founded a few years ago to develop entertainment product in the spirit of Hanna Barbera, once a part of Taft Broadcasting Company.

Allison and her husband, Ted, live in Niwot, Colorado, a suburb of Boulder. They have two children: ten-year-old Will and seven-year-old Ellie. Allison is a fourth-grade teacher at Boulder Country Day School, and Ted is a senior executive at Micro Motion, a division of Emerson. Everyone in the family is a skier, and they are blessed to be near the great Colorado ski resorts.

I well remember my dad saying that, as you grow older, your children mean more and more to you. Indeed, it is impossible for me to imagine old age without kids and grandchildren. Marilyn and I are blessed.