One would think, living alone on a mountain ridge would produce the net effect of one's having everything. In fact the impact of having to live day to day happy to breathe the mountain air is captured in the pages of this book. There are birds to feed and clothes to fold, there is romance, there is the life of hiking boots and bath oils, of warm gloves and nail polish, of quilts and computers. All is inlaid with the life and the love, the freaks and the fights, the saints and the sailors.