Julie Quiring
Julie is a relatively well-adjusted person, considering she was forced to attend sixth grade carrying a gigantic grey lunchbox decorated with shelf paper. The middle daughter of two black sheep, her formative years spanned a quiet neighborhood in Fresno, California, a Quaker commune in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and a tipi at the foot of Mt. Willet in Southeastern British Columbia. In 1978, the B.C. Government paid her $8 twice a week to run up a mountain and read numbers on a stick in the creek, setting the bar very high for all future employment. Time passed and stuff happened. She held jobs, went to Europe, got a really bad perm. More time passed and more stuff happened. She moved to Whidbey Island and gave birth to two wonderful daughters.

She has been working with David and Many Rivers for more than 18 years; an astonishing achievement for someone averse to making dentist appointments six months in advance because You Never Know. During that time, she has done everything from vacuum the floor to designing and developing this website. An avid reader and writer, she is currently taking a break from political and cultural tomes to read something that doesn't make her mad. Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policeman's Union has been just the thing.

Lisa Jae
There are times when opening up the box of biography becomes a question of good editing. Born and raised in Chicago… the middle of a pack of 7.  Dreamt of acting…found canvas and paint.  Collected loves that still haunt me.  Found marriage briefly.

Moved a house…held the earth in my belly and raised her into a beautiful child now 15.

I am an artist in my head…but for so long have not made my mark.
I live in beautiful places, create beautiful home, but do not call one my own.
My passions are quieter these days, my fire tempered, but I think that I am just in waiting for my time to rise again.

I have worked with David for two years. I am a self-dubbed queen of organization, detail, multi-tasking, music and Googling.

Pauline Elliot
Made in Chile. Born in California. Presently living on Whidbey Island with my darling, beautiful, smart daughter Alohi and my sassy Maltese Ellie Bear. I am a freelance accountant, managing accounts and hand-holding for about 75% of South Whidbey Island, while giving unconditional love and support to my parents, and vice-versa.

Have you ever heard of the phrase, "it takes a village?" - well, in my daughter's case, it does.