I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful andloving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our localsuper business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazinead for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a DorothyDress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. Thepicture here tells you the story better than a thousand words.

In addition to some money, we obtained several cases of glass brickdelivered to our Toledo home. That brick has moved with us all these years;some of it was installed in our current home as solid basement windows, butthat is not the only place where the shiny bricks managed to get a prominent,luminous function! The bricks’ legacy, which strongly relates to my mother’smemory brings back other recollections, meandering through my feelings toeventually reach my beloved wife Sabiha, the mother of everybody else in myfamily and my strong ally in my work.