Gregory Allen Badersnider is the author of Picking Up Sticks: A MidTerm Project, a considerate and reflective journey book that discovers the loveliness of common life through mindful storytelling, personal reflection, and real, life experiences. Influenced by the family, nature, memory, and sixty years of lived experience, the book is a compilation of short essays that urge readers to slow down, be thankful, and discover the meaning of ordinary moments. Using a warm, heartfelt tone from a background of simple living and uplifting writing, Gregory Allen Badersnider makes it possible for people to return to the less noisy aspects of life and find again the worth of being aware, showing love, and living purposely.