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.
With any luck {I have been having trouble with my post photos of late for some reason} you will see one of nature's really fine pieces of artwork, in this unusual fish with the hexagonal yellow spots on purple and that fabulous orange fin with a purple outline on it, as if someone had carefully drawn it. On the other side you see a huge piece of animal-laden artwork my sister completed for an exhibit in Missoula, Montana. Unfortunately you will not see any artwork by me in this post, the art gene having skipped me entirely in favor of my daughter. I'm still at the stick figure stage of artwork. My consolation, however, is that I can create through writing, and my work usually also includes animals. The first book of my trilogy, Power Rising, centers around a beluga, and even in my latest book, now in the hands of a proofreader, a little dog named Puff has a small role. Animals and art. I'm on board.
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