Margo T. Krasne

What Would I do Without You? is a collection of 13 short stories about the different friendships and all their complexities one can have in one's life. The characters are artists, writers, business types, women, men, single and married. Their ages run the gamut. Starlight Starbright tells about two women who have known each other since childhood whereas the women in The French Lesson meet in their fifties. Friendships within a family are explored in the title story as well as Dead Daisies Strewn All Over. There are friendships that grow apart and those that life tears apart. This is a book about attachment, separation, loss and sometimes reattachment. But mostly it is about how friendships sustain us for the time they do exist and even beyond.

Margo Krasne, a dyed in the wool New Yorker, has lived many lives-- often simultaneously. Trained as an actress under Sanford Meisner, she left the theater for the ad world, creating the Radio Department at Doyle Dane Bernbach in the 1960's. Her hands in clay from early days, she went from advertising to sculpting full time until, in her 50's, she reinvented herself once again becoming a highly successful communication coach. Margo is the author of "Say It With Confidence" and "Appearances". This is her story.