Waiting for the bus on Charlie’s first day of third grade and Jackson’s first day of kindergarten. (2000)

After we had been to my parent’s cabin for a week and I had gotten up on the wakeboard—at the age of forty!—Jackson brought home a poem from school that included a hand-drawn picture of me being pulled behind the ski boat, with him driving. He was eight. (2003)

Artwork by Jackson Sanders (circa 2010, age 15) created in high school as a project for a class.

Back cover of Jackson’s school project.

When he was 17, Jackson gave me a handmade birthday card. (2012)