This author wishes to thank: 
My friends and family for their stout feet . . . kicking my butt out of procrastination mode and back into play!  To Melody: I know ghosts and curses aren’t your thing, but your suggestions for character development proved invaluable!  To Jonelle: for all of your encouragement and your artistic talents helping me develop my blog site jjandersonblog.blogspot.com.  Girls, being your mom has been a privilege.  To my tireless reader/volunteer editors: Debra Armstrong, Shirley Anderson, Shannon Anderson, Joanne Sheehy, Kaye Moon, Janice Thale and Lynn Foss, all of you have not only kept me inspired but you’ve kept me moving that one step forward!   To Dawn Anderson-Boehler:  for your expertise in designing my website.  
And finally to John, my husband . . . now here’s a man with stout feet; who after watching me ‘tinker, tinker’ with this book had the wisdom, or maybe the lack of patience to ream into me with; “You can polish and polish this widget of a book ‘till hell freezes over, until it gleams like a shiny diamond, but at some point you have to toss the damn thing out there and take it for a spin!  See if it flies or if it crashes and burns.”  Now, who can argue with logic like that?