Think Kind Thoughts was written by Rita and Eric Youngquist.  The first section - RITA- begins with genealogies taking her family back  to pre-Revolutionary times in four separate lines, three from her mother and one from her father.  After stories about her grandparents and parents, it continues with Rita's own life until we are married.  A good deal of this section comes from Rita's own writing, and particularly the letters she wrote to her parents when she was in Japan (1947-48) with her sister Kay.  The second section, Our Life together, from Academia to the Foreign Service, covers our time at University of Wisconsin, University of Oslo, and Cornell University, and ends when we are ready to depart for our first Foreign Service assignment at our Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Think Kind Thoughts is available in a special limited edition and, as of October, 2007, in a trade edition (with some minor modifications from the original). Excerpts from the book are available for downloading.  Here is the table of contents: Contents   Prologue                                                                                                                                                                                         Genealogy          Prince                                             Dodge                                      Alden                                       Mitchell          Part 1 – Rita Rita’s Grandfather – Earl Henry Prince (E.H.)          Rita’s Grandmother - Minnie Harriet Jones Prince (Mama)          Rita’s Mother - Sarah Harriet Prince Parrish (Honey)          Rita’s Father - William Mallow Parrish (Bo          Rita                 Childhood and Early Years               Trip back to Louisiana and the Plantation             Avery Coonley School                        High School and Music                        Rita and Kay in Japan 1947 – 1948                    Sumo, Silk, Earthquakes, and Leading Families                    Climbing Fuji                     Sendai                     Mary Sawada’s Grandfather’s Farm              Back at Michigan 1948 – 1950               We find one Another          Marriage                                                       Part 2 – Our Life Together: From Academia into the Foreign Service About Rita                    Note on reading Rita       University of Wisconsin                      Maple Bluffs and Summertime                    237 Langdon                    Rita and Teaching                    Getting Ready for Norway                    On Stage          Norway (1951 - 1952)                                  Trip over on SS Stavangerfjord                    Visit to Rjukan                    Trip to Paris, London, and Glasgow                              Apartment in the Suburbs                    Honey Arrives                    A Nation on Skis                          Practicing my Norwegian                    Winter Olympics                    More Skiing                    New Arrival                    Spring in Oslo                    Back to America          On to Cornell (1952 - 1954)           Bricks and Books                    Moving to Ithaca                    Settling in                     Jobs, Jobs                    Teaching Fellow                    Daily Living                    Ithaca Rifle and Pistol Club                    Home Life                    The Big Payoff                    Catching the Foreign Service Bug                    Final Semester at Cornell                    Getting Ready for the Oral Examination          Waiting for the Service           Into the Foreign Service (January – February, 1955)