Working Title of my Memoir is "Significant Others"

I visualize the cover as a kind of pinball effect, a metaphor for the way life shifts with each new encounter. Something like this:

I am busy working on the four short short stories that explain how I became "Author, Photographer, Gardener, Psychologist." I started graduate school because I wanted to get married, and thought he couldn't afford a wife. Here's an excerpt from that short story,