Joy is a Kentucky native who lives in Northern California with her teacher/photographer husband, Tom. Her genealogy search takes her back to visit her Kentucky cousins often. Joy and Tom plan to retire there as soon as they can convince children and grandchildren to tag along.

Other than making dry mudprints, eating snowcream, picking blackberries and enjoying peach juice running down her arm on a warm summer’s day, Joy swears nothing in this work of fiction actually happened to her. Really. But she’s sure it has happened in some family tree, to someone, sometime, somewhere. Maybe even hers. Maybe yours.