For the author, Dr. Ann Kathryn Orsinger-Olson, education has been a lifelong passion. When she isn't learning herself, she is working to help others extend their horizons and engage in exciting new discoveries. Ann currently splits her time between teaching philosophy and ethics and writing books for children that help them see the beauty and positive lessons both in everyday life and in those all-too-common experiences that are challenging, painful, and hard. Ann is inspired daily by the power of words and stories to deliver deep lessons to the heart of all human beings. "I am always looking for ways that I can help people use their experience of suffering as a doorway or catalyst for transforming their lives." Happily remarried, with three young children and five step-children, ages 2 through 18, Ann has ample opportunities to create and share such stories with her children.
