The Author

Kristen T. Pirog is a former middle school teacher, and proud Army brat and Army wife. she currently lives in Georgia with her husband John and their daughters Ellie and Molly.

The Illustrator

Julie A. Pierce is an artist and the wife of an Army Reservist. She is a former middle school teacher who currently lives in Virginia with her husband Christian and their four children Joshua, ellen, Ansley and Emery.

  "It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend."

~John Ruskin