Well before the end of the 20th century, Nancy trained in the retail advertising department of Marshall Field & Co. in Chicago at the legendary State Street store. She was assigned to "Gifts and Home"and learned to truly look at and describe the intrinsic qualities of the objects that Field's presented for sale. Subsequent years took her to work in Washington D.C., New York, and Connecticut and, despite her varied career, the gift of looking carefully was always useful. Now retired, Nancy walks lightly in a world filled indiscriminately with Stuff--family cast-offs, flea markets, thrift shops--and in all the Stuff, she finds objects worthy of note, ready to be valued by the right eye, in the right place.