The story began in 1965 with the construction of the author and husband's amazing glass walled house in Lakeside, Michigan. The author described her family’s adventures in the nearby getaway of Lakeside, Michigan, and the famous and infamous people who were her neighbors over the years. The paper contains stories about the building, the neighbors and the Lakeside community. They still vacation there. Well-known people in the story: Lillian Marshall (heavy equipment business), Mies van der Rohe, Jacques Brownson, and David Haid (architects), Mrs. Alden Swift (mean packing) and her sister, Mrs. James Ward Thorne (Thorne Rooms), Mabel Dodge Luhan (famous salon), Georgia O'Keefe, Mr. & Mrs. Ivan Albright (painter and in-laws of Madeline Albright), Bill Maudlin (G.I. Joe cartoons and Mabel Luhan's son-in-law). The author also described her family’s adventures in the nearby getaway of Lakeside, Michigan, and the famous and infamous people who were her neighbors over the years. Kat also wrote about the construction of an amazing glass walled house she and her husband built. One remark in Kat’s story has stuck with me – when Kat told the architect she thought they might need more closet space, he pooh-poohed the idea, saying “oh, you’d just get more junk if you have more space".