A Timeline is what your Lists become together. The car you bought at seventeen sits beside the job that paid for it and the song that was on the radio — one life, laid end to end, for the people you choose to share it with.
Nobody sits down to write a Timeline. You answer a List about your jobs one evening and a List about your homes another. Decembers places every answer by its year and weaves in the Milestones that anchor it.
Chris’s Timeline
Twelve answers from four Lists, and two Milestones.
Chris was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Milestone
home44 Madison Avenue, River Edge, NJ 07661
Every address
eventUS hockey team stuns the Soviet Union — Miracle on Ice
World events
eventSpace Shuttle Challenger disaster
World events
jobAttendant at Sparkle Car Wash on Route 4
Every job
home311 Garden Street, Apt 3, Hoboken, NJ 07030
Every address
jobOperations manager, Tri-State Fleet Services
Every job
jobGeneral manager, Colfax Express Wash
Every job
MarriedJenna
Milestone
home6418 Owens Street, Arvada, CO 80004
Every address
milestoneSophie’s first day of kindergarten
Your children's milestones
eventGlobal financial crisis
World events
milestoneLuke’s first hockey goal
Your children's milestones
milestoneSophie on top of Longs Peak
Your children's milestones
A whole life, written the way yours would be, and opened the way your Inner Circle would open it: the photographs, the feelings, and the notes they add to your memories.
Sample Timeline
Born 1971 · Hackensack, New Jersey
Grew up in Bergen County, washed cars on Route 4 at sixteen, followed a ski instructor to Denver, and built three car washes of his own.
68 memories, 1971 to 2026.
Shared with five: Jenna, Sophie, Luke, Nora and Danny.
