About the Author

Rebecca Graves moved from Memphis, Tennessee to Vashon Island, Washington in 1975. A teacher with a master's degree in early childhood education, she has been engaged in that profession in various ways--from teaching preschool and kindergarten, to doing neurodevelopmental therapy, to substitute teaching. She is heavily involved in community and the arts, singing with the Threshold Choir and two other choruses, participating in fiber arts groups with knitting and felting, producing a fundraiser for the high school drama department that brought in $12,000, and creating a popular Facebook page called Visual Delights on Vashon, where locals showcase their photographs of the beauty that surrounds us. She has been married to Phil Volker for forty years and they have raised two children