What Libby loves

Libby loves Murray and Alex and Minna and the rest of her family. Libby loves words and popular culture but not as much as Murray and Alex love popular culture. Libby loves to think about art and what it means. Libby loves to make things and make things up. Then she believes her own fictions.

Libby loves tools. The affair started at Sears in 1973, when Murray bought her a drill for her birthday so she could hang the shelves and curtains in their new home. Now that she has a computer and a new kitchen she loves them too.

Libby loves books and the newspaper and magazines. Libby brakes for historical markers. Murray doesn't (even though he's the published historian in the family). It's the biggest problem in their marriage.

What Roberta loves

Roberta loves Steve, Stella, Max and Oona and the rest of her family. Roberta loves gossip and ideas and information and politics. She'll talk about any of them with equal enthusiasm. Roberta loves art and writing, duh. She loves people and animals, especially birds.

Roberta loved being a bookworm at her local public library when she was a child. She loves stories--her own and everyone elses. The gothic horror of holy cards and stories of the saints have left their mark on Roberta's imagination. Out out damned spot. She's now Saint Roberta of the Bleeding Heart. Color her blue.

Drawing Shelley

Shelley loves her home town, Philadelphia. She also loves her gallery which has some magical qualities. Such as, even though the space is tiny, the shows in there never look crowded. The place is a crossroads, a virtual community center.

Shelley is smart as hell and thinks big thoughts. That intelligence attracts a steady stream of pilgrims.

What Shelley loves

Besides her family, who she loves most of all, Shelley loves people and figuring out what makes them tick. She loves being Jewish. Her last big show included klezmer music and a minyan of sculptures, praying together.

She happily shines the spotlight on the artists in her gallery, but she also loves her own front page coverage. She's crazy about gossip.

Shelley loves Disney World.