The author graduated from Michigan State University and will venture to say that she is literate. That is her qualification for writing this story. She will be seventy this year and is nearly brain dead. That is her excuse for writing this story. But seriously, she is a retired microbiologist and resides in upstate New York. She lives alone with four meddlesome cats, if you can call that living alone. She has an adult son and daughter who are also college graduates.