Design Memoir

Pull on your boots and take a walk with Cynthia McVay and her dogs-consummate hosts and guides, in a riveting landscape rife with adventure and discovery. In A Field of My Own: A Memoir of Place, lifelong creative and environmentalist McVay chronicles her intimate, two-decade relationship with a flagging orchard in the Hudson Valley. As a single working mother seeking a weekend escape from New York City, one blustery winter day, she falls in love with a meadow and her life is forever altered.

In 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement address to the 114th graduating class at Stanford University. This speech went on to reach 26 million online viewers worldwide and framed 'three stories' that succinctly summed up the most important life-changing lessons Jobs learned in life. Life by Design begins with Jobs' own words from this historical speech and expands outwards from there, giving insights into his personal and business philosophies.

Worried and confused. Angry and embittered. Unfocused and uninspired. We live in a world where it's easy to fall into these unhealthy patterns of thought and emotion. Work is stressful. Relationships are rocky. Finances can be burdensome. A health crisis looms. Addictions run rampant. The list goes on. Art Haddaway in Reflections of an Editor aims to encourage and inspire anyone facing these issues.