“The first time I crossed paths with Deb was in the early ’90s when she was giving a talk about her’s and Jay’s and the National Park Service’s response to Hurricane Andrew. I knew right then that she was an amazing speaker. Now, all these years later, I know that she is an amazing writer. More accurately, she is an amazing storyteller, but not everyone can do it so eloquently both in writing and spoken. Deb can. This is an excellent memoir of a life lived well. The subtitle “Tales From a Life in the National Park Service” says it all. It may not tell you everything to know if you want to work for the National Park Service, and it is not a definitive guidebook to the various parks that she worked in. But it is a beautiful, lyric telling of stories that will lead the reader to sense and to feel how the parks impacted her, and vice versa, how she impacted the parks. This book is an appeal to the senses.”