A California kid, I grew up skiing all over the north and south shores of Lake Tahoe in the Sierras. I studied Sports Management, through the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism major at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where China Peak was the closest mountain for day trips between classes. I earned my Doctorate in Physical Therapy at New York Med, where I learned anatomy by drawing it in extreme detail... and learned to carve lines through ice, mostly in Vermont. I returned to the San Francisco Bay Area, the backside of a decade ago, to start a career in Sports Medicine (and subsequently get closer to a serious mountain range.) Shortly after returning, I married my wife Kelly, an avid snowboarder, at the top of Heavenly. And now I’ve got two boys learning to shred themselves.

The book was a passion project, inspired in part due to fatigue from reading aloud the tracked out, routine rhyming children's books. I wrote the poems in 2018 during paternity time after the birth of my first boy, Hudson. I illustrated, designed, and published the book independently in 2020, shortly after the birth of my second son, Quinn.