Author of the best-selling Confessions of a Slacker Mom, Muffy Mead-Ferro was born into a fourth generation cattle ranching family that has been raising Herefords in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, since the turn of the century. She traded her tractor for a typewriter and has been an advertising copywriter and creative director ever since. She and her husband. Michael, along with kids Belle and Joe live in Salt Lake City. Utah.