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Reading Tolkien out loud while two primary-grade siblings engaged in an action-figure battle to the death was not an easy task. Competing to be heard while constant noise and motion were going on around me used to be an incredibly frustrating endeavor. While I took pride in the engagement of my older children in the story line, I was humbled by the apparent disinterest and disrespect shown by my younger children to their father’s voice. . Evan's greatest accomplishment was to marry his wife, Kathryn, and begin their family together in 2006. They reside in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, with their six children and one dog. Evan enjoys reading to his family, telling stories, singing, playing guitar, riding mountain bikes, and drinking coffee.