Paula MatthewsAfter a twenty-year business career, Paula Matthews now focuses on arranging and composing music. She enjoys playing the piano and hammered dulcimer. Free downloads of her arrangements and songs are available on her website: paulacoopermatthews.com Pula currently lives in Louisville, Kentucky, with her husband, Tim, and their dog, Morgan. She thanks their son, Jon, for his legal advice. Her granddaughter, Ellie, is the bright young reader she considered most while writing this book. The gift of music and the gift of painting brought Paula and Beth Vacanti together. Even though they never had one verbal conversation, their creative talents and expressions spoke beautifully to each other! Paula's music comforted Beth in her last days. Beth's art inspired Paula's desire to create this book in order to memorialize the wonderful images Beth created. In future books, you soon will see how Treedells really came to be! Read More Read Less