My writing career started at the age of 62. Mandy The Alpha Dog, a story of overcoming all obstacles was written to help my grand daughter deal with her fears due to the divorcing of her parents. Mandy, the first book in the series The Chronicles of The K-9 Boys and Girls on Locus Street is illustrated in cartoon fashion to entertain and educate the 7-12-year-old, our target audience. I have been blessed through my marriage in traveling from coast to coast and border to border in this vast and beautiful country, the United States. I was born in Brooklyn, New York and after marriage at the tender age of 19, the adventures began. I forwent my education to become a high school teacher/librarian and worked to educate my husband who taught in colleges, prisons, and on reservations. He also served in the Navy which added to our transitory wanderings. During our migration, I put my business background to work in office services and in tutoring. Our goal in life has always been to help the 'underdog' and to insure that there is a healthy environment mentally, physically, and spiritually. The Chronicles of the K-9 Boys and Girls series with Mandy The Alpha Dog as the lead book has become a continuing force in our life. The series is populated by rescue dogs who interact in solving serious life issues but always with humor and hope. The dogs always seem to have a tale [they prefer tail] to tell and as long as they speak, I will record their chronicles and my son will illustrate with cartoons. My husband was diagnosed with Dementia due to repeated blows to his left frontal lobes in a near-fatal car accident, and I have Lymph edema due to two bouts of breast cancer. I no longer can travel physically, so now my keyboard takes me to far off places with new and wondrous things to see and mayhap to write. My genre is children and animals, helping them accomplish being all they can be, so they in turn can be the helping hand for the next generation. A minimum of 10% of our proceeds goes to animal rescue or other charities as the books deem.