Like her protagonist Shannon Kendricks, Cathy Parker is an attorney. She volunteered as a zoo keeper's aide for eight years and did have a very special beluga buddy, Mauyak, just as Shannon Kendricks has. As to encounters with alien children, as in the trilogy, she is not saying. She was also a radio and print journalist and once was the 'Jill of all trades' for a small satellite paper in Wyoming. She did everything from taking to the photos to writing the articles and op-ed pieces to helping with layout and hauling the newspapers through blizzards once a week. As a result, she saw lambs being born and went on a cattle drive and ate her first (and last) Rocky Mountain Oyster. She has seen mountain gorillas in the wild in Rwanda and orangutans in Borneo and even rocked an orphaned baby orangutan to sleep on her chest. She has volunteered with a chimpanzee sanctuary for former research subjects. So you can see where her heart lies. Currently she lives in Costa Rica with her black cat. All similarities between her cat and the trilogy's Narcissus are purely and probably coincidental.
As you may recall, the shaman of the Bri Bri community I visited when I went to the Costa Rican Caribbean challenged us to eat some termites alive by scooping them out of the tree we were staring at. The people I was with were hesitant so I stepped forward and went first. I'm never one to back down from a virtual dare. And the experience wasn't bad. Of course since an older woman went first, everybody else followed except, surprisingly, the teen young man with us. Well. This did not prepare me for the ugly termite nest you see here. It was located behind my kitchen cabinets and came to light when I tore out the cabinets because I could see termite damage in the cabinets. Ugh and double ugh. These termites are very small so think how many larvae had been nesting in this thing. I never ever want to see the slightest hint of termite damage ever again anywhere I live. I even saw a live one in my bedroom. I didn't eat it.
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