Thanks

Beloved Ryan, I couldn’t do it without you. Geraldine, you’re my one and only Gigi-bird.

Thanks to my folks, Joel and Kathy, who crafted a full-fledged, wide-open, free-wheeling, oil-painting, good-cooking, horse-riding, target-shooting, Jesus-loving, firewood-splitting creative environment to raise their kids. Thanks to sister Corrie and brother Forest—you’re always amazing to me. Keep doing all the things.

No one writes a book alone: Thanks to the team at Quarto, especially Joy and Marissa, and my agent Dawn. Thanks to Amy Louise for talking me through it, all of it, and shooting the best pictures of me for these pages.