Intro: Peeling and slicing onions for dinner, All Things Considered on the radio, dog sitting on my left foot chomping on a carrot – a nice time in my day. I wondered where other women’s places of feeling food for a few minutes a day were. When I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, Ruth Bender’s Everyday Sacred and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea, I had been struck about the importance of having time for oneself. In Her Place records where, at the end of the 20th Century, 56 American women have found a place of nurture for themselves. In Her Place shares, in text and photographs, their personal sanctuaries.