Author Karen Spears Zacharias has been featured on Huffington Post, Good Morning America, &  CNN. Her commentary has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and on NPR's “All Things Considered” and “Morning Edition.” Karen blogs at Patheos.com and teaches journalism at Central Washington University. Karen wrote this book while serving as writer-in-residence at the Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope, AL. She divides her time between the Deschutes River in Oregon and Mobile Bay in Alabama.