Years and years ago, my brother introduced us, and she and her cat Emerson became my upstairs neighbor for a short time, before she bought her house.

Ellie is very sweet, talented, and a deep thinker—a great combination for one person to have. She has been known to obliterate the narrowmindedness of Kent County, MI in all of its small town entirety. But occasionally she must take short breaks, so the lake in East Grand Rapids doesn’t dry up.