Evolution

I came across a photo of my husband, Jack, and I before we were married. We met in Ocean Beach in our early 20's -  we "fell in lust" and the love followed. We've been married for 42 years and the two of us have grown to a family of 14! When I was younger I remember hearing old people say, "where did the time go" and I'm now saying the same thing! So much has changed for us . . .  in our family and our business.

Our lives ever evolving - from simply being a couple, to a family with children, and all that entails! Now we're grandparents - a whole other road to travel. As for our business, the transitions have been tremendous there as well.  

So much has changed in the print world due to technology. As a kid I remember cold type which became obsolete with the invention of computerized typesetting. When Fax machines came to be, it was the greatest invention ever! We no longer had to hand deliver or mail contracts, or proofs, which were usually one color at that time, (color printing was an expensive novelty! Computers have completely changed art for print. No one knew what a PDF was. Printing jobs used to take 8-10 days to complete; now they happen in lightening speed it seems. Now e-mail and texting are preferred methods of communication, and I understand the efficiency, but I do wonder . . . am I the only one missing "face-time" or even "phone-time"? I still enjoy that and often answer the phones at my office, so I can personally thank clients for their patronage. 

Tom Freston once said, "A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usually a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you."

Forgive me for sounding like "an old fogey," just curious . . . am the only one? Please feel free to comment.