Nathan Pitchford is a husband of one wife and father of two children, a son on Earth and a daughter in Heaven. He writes out of necessity and lives out of astonishment. He enjoys what he sees and what he might see but never will, including gardens, jungles, white and black and red and blue and yellow stars, mice, molehills, mammoths, books, campfires, whitewater, gray smoke, and most of all people, who hide a universe in every twinkle.