Anne Ayers Koch

Look Both Ways: at the Intersection of Yesterday and Tomorrow Anne Ayers Koch

How does one respond when the frozen past meets the fluid present? Reject and retreat or reflect and reframe? Look Both Ways is a collection of short essays that look back and forward along the path many have traveled-from the road of certainty to one of possibility. Using the metaphor of traffic signals as a frame, Anne Koch considers what shaped her thinking, what upended it, and what opportunities lie ahead as life's journey winds on. The book is the final installment in an essay quartet A Conversation with the World. The first three volumes recount her quiet affection for ordinary life-popular mysteries, arts and crafts, and teaching. Look Both Ways focuses on transitions. How they surprise us, frustrate us, and free us for a future that builds on the past, invites the future, and celebrates the present.