About the Author

ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICK (BA English, MS Philosophy) -- is a veteran journalist and long time instructor in Humanities at Monterey Peninsula College on the Big Sur-Monterey coast. She was a city desk reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune, promotion director for KUED (Utah's public television station), and an Associate Professor at the University of Utah before re-rooting (after raising two children) on a sunny acre in Carmel Valley. Here she's nurtured sheep, goats, Shelties, and some little red hens when she wasn't teaching, writing, and 'travelling backward' to visit global spots still unspoiled by industrial development.