David Solbach is a retired carpenter and Jazz musician tending goats on several acres of Western Oregon rainforest. Other books by him include Painted Toes and Other Mistakes, poems, and three novels: Stonpacker’s Gold, The Willamette Chronicles, and So Glad I’m Glad I’m Glad. The author reading poems from Painted Toes and Other Mistakes can be heard at soundcloud.com/davidsolbach.