Message From Editor

Typical publications usually take about a month to a few months to produce, but this one is special! This is Charlie Magazine, and it took 83 years in the making! Good things take time! As the oldest daughter, photographer, and magazine editor in chief, I felt like I should put together a visual momento for the family to celebrate Charlie's life so far! To be honest, it's been a little bit of an arduous task collecting, organizing and editing 83 years of photos! My mom has taught me many things in life but one of the things I'm still learning is patience! I had to be patient with myself doing this project and everyday it was on my list of things to do. Ironically I'm grateful that I was patient putting this together because in the last two years, Charlie has given us even more stories, answers to interesting questions, fun photos and as always, constant love and inspiration. I had to read Charlie's life story multiple times in order to coordinate the photos with her story. The more I read her story the more impressed and proud I became of my Mom. I was meant to do this project because it's lifted me up and given me an even brighter perspective on life and enormous gratitude for my mom and my family. Everyone in the family helped with this project, by being a part of Charlie’s life, sending photos, asking questions and giving me the motivation to finish this project. Thank you Mom for this amazing family. We are all so lucky to have each other. Life is beautiful and love is infinite, here on this planet and beyond.