So, Ed, my husband, had a brother in California, and he had been in Australia. He is a civil engineer. He’d lived in Australia, he’d lived in Canada, and he’d lived in New Zealand. He had lived in South America. He wrote us and said, “You know, California is the best place I’ve ever lived.” He lived up in the bay area in San Francisco, and he said, “Why don’t you just pack up and come?”
Well, that’s a very hard thing to do, especially when you’re not coming to a job. You don’t have any money. You have three, small children. I know lots of people do it, and I think that’s why I can write with feeling about so many immigrants to this country, because I was one, and I know what that means, wherever you come from.
