Romania Romania's Martisor festival marks the beginning of spring when talismanic strings and flowers are handed out, often from men to women.
Her book is about moving from a time when her children were little and "the things I touched were living" ("my husband's fingers, a dandelion, a skinned knee") to a time when she increasingly began to capture and memorialize moments from her life in photos and words — to create, as an artist, talismanic souvenirs of the past.
