
Lakeside Joy
From left to right Amanda, Jack Michael, Zachary, and Aspen.
These photographs now sit inside the world of I Need A Smoke as an accompaniment to the memoir: not as decoration, but as a living archive of closeness, place, laughter, ceremony, and endurance.
The page is intentionally warm and editorial. Each image is treated like a held object—something remembered, turned over, and kept near.


From left to right Amanda, Jack Michael, Zachary, and Aspen.
Left to right Hannah, Tyler, and Kaitlin.

Can you tell our favorite team is the Flames?
These images are placed throughout the page like keepsakes—evidence of love, history, ordinary joy, and the lives that shaped the memoir.
The gallery is gentle, but it is not ornamental. It is built to support the emotional truth of the book rather than distract from it.
More photographs, captions, or chapter-based groupings can be added over time as the author platform continues to grow.

better days...better times

The kid who got into all kinds of trouble... but it was that look that saved him!
Left to right, Amanda, Zachary at six foot five, Aspen, and Jack Michael.

Amanda's graduation with both sets of Grandparents.

My whole family — that was the last time that we were all together.

Just goes to show you how excited they all were to be together.

Amanda arriving home from one of her sailing trips on the Pacific Grace to her favorite little men.
A mutual relationship in days gone by.


Brotherly and sisterly love. Left to right; Jack Michael, Amanda, Aspen & Zachary.
My incredible parents Mike and Janet Stuffco.