Elizabeth Weiss VollstadtELIZABETH WEISS VOLLSTADT has many happy memories of skating on a nearby pond when she was growing up on Long Island, NY. Like Jamie's stepmother, she marveled at skaters who could jump, spin, and glide over the ice. When her daughter became a skater she enjoyed several years as a skating mom. Elizabeth Weiss Vollstadt has worked as a prolific writer, editor, and English teacher. Read More Read Less