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.
Yipes! Don't look at the distorted photo on the left, look to the right. I didn't take this photo but it always gives me a lift to look at it--all those tusks! I had the great fortune to work with a female walrus named Andy who had many things wrong with her system. But she was a funny girl. She was small, only 900 pounds, and after a time she would come put her muzzle on my work boot and grumble for a while, her whiskers gently brushing against me. I loved her. She was one of my more usual companions, although I have had a number of them. Many people love the companionship of unusual animals. And now we are observing that humans aren't the only species that enjoys the company of usual friends. I was just reading of a dolphin that hangs out with harbor porpoises. The dolphin was probably separated from his pod somehow and was lonely. But the harbor porpoises didn't have to tolerate him. Good for them. Now, if more humans could only learn to tolerate the more usual companions in the midst of our own species. {Coming soon--new covers for the Power Rising series}
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