Currently retired from Kaiser Permanente after 26 years as a medical secretary. I write short stories - lots of them have cats that play a part in the story. Just compeleted my first novel - go figure - it has a mystery solving cat. I have two children and four grandchildren and seven cats. Three are ferals that come night and morning for breakfast and dinner and then disappear. I work at Discovery Shop one day a week which is a retail store for Cancer Research. Also sit on the Friends of the Library board of directors at the Elk Grove Library. Im a Christian and a conservative Republican concerned for the welfare of our state and country.