Adele Aldridge has been working with the I Ching for 40 years as a learner and as an artist creating images and text for I Ching Meditations - A Woman's Book of Changes. She earned a Ph.D. in Art and the Personal Symbolic Process, studying with Jos� Arg�elles at the Union Institute University. She has thirty-five years of experience as a fine artist showing her work in galleries in New York, Connecticut and San Francisco, and has worked as a Book Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Web Designer and Instructor in Computer Graphic programs. You can learn more about Adele Aldridge's work with the I Ching at: www.ichingmeditations.com.
Ruby Side Thompson mother of seven sons kept diaries all her life. Ruby was born in 1884 and died in 1970. She was born and raised in England just outside of London. She was an intelligent, forward thinking individual and outspoken only in her diaries. Ruby was married to a man that was very rigid and controlling. The war year diaries chronicle Ruby's struggle to survive in the midst of a horrendous war, where London is bombed nightly.