Dream Catcher: A Memoir (80 page)

Peggy, age twelve, near the first day of boarding school.

Peggy, number 22. Joyce Maynard wrote: “I like Jerry’s children, but I have little in common with this cheerful, friendly twelve-year-old boy and his basketball-loving sixteen-year-old sister.”

Hanging out at the Cambridge School.

I was a Grade D auto and truck mechanic for the Boston Edison Co. and member of the United Utility Workers Union of America, A.F.L.-C.I.O., from 1975 to 1980—unaware at the time that Holden Caulfield had dreamed of dropping out of school and working in a garage somewhere, pumping gas.

Graduation day, 1982, Brandeis University. Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, with high honors in history and legal studies. Left to right: my mother, brother, me, and my father.

My brother, off camera, made my father laugh.

Number 5, captain of Oxford University Ladies’ Basketball Team.

Celebrating the end of examinations.

Graduation day, 1984, Oxford University. M.Phil. in Management Studies. To the left is my mentor and dear friend, the late Geoffrey Barraclough, with me and my brother, Matthew.

Chaplain Peggy Salinger, with Mia Klumpenhouwer, age nine, after performing a marriage ceremony for friends, September 1, 1990.

The author and her son.

A friend helps.

A friend laughs with you.

A friend helps you up when you are hurt.

(—the author’s son, age five)