Comes This Time To Float

Acknowledging My Cohorts It is with humble gratitude that I thank these people for helping me with these stories and with putting together this collection: Ann E. Stewart, the late managing director of publisher Fresh Ink Group (FIG): Nearly all of these stories were prepped, formatted, submitted, managed, and more by Ann at various times of our long history together. She is remembered fondly by all who knew her. Her influence on how we do things at FIG is timeless. Beem Weeks, associate publisher, editor, media producer, social-media manager, and more: Beem is the only person I trust to review my material. He offered wondrous feedback for many of these stories. We worked together on choosing, assembling, and tweaking this collection, as well as on producing its promo videos. Lauren A. Smith, associate publisher, managing director: Lauren keeps Fresh Ink Group humming, even as she works on book projects and more. Scott Watson, Dizzy, Snake Wagner, Benjamin Wagner, Story-blocks, UnSplash, and more, photographers, artists, pic-shapers—these people and collections added poignant imagery to my prose and to the book’s videos. Stephanie Collins, Traci Sanders, Sooz Burke, Helen Borel, Gordon Bickerstaff, Joseph Ajlouny, Robin Chambers, Vashti Quiroz-Vega, Kent Casey, et alia, hard-core supporters who believe in my work and aren’t bashful about spreading the word.