Working in backcountry huts in NH’s White Mountains was the ideal job right out of college. After meeting Zack in the woods and becoming restless with a lifetime in New England, we moved to Tahoe in the fall of 1999. I started teaching elementary school in the fall of 2003 and earned a masters in education in December 2010. After I began a second masters in education program in 2014, Zack ran into some hematological and neurological troubles in 2015 and life took a turn to the left.