Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover's Soul (45 page)

Pam Johnson-Bennett
is a well-known feline behaviorist and author of several books, including
Psycho Kitty
(Crossing Press) and
Twisted Whiskers
(Crossing Press). Her newest book,
Think Like A Cat
(Penguin Books), will be available in January 2000. Pam frequently appears on national TV, on such networks as CNN and Fox News Channel.

Tim Jones
is a former newspaper and magazine editor who left behind the confines of a more urban life in Anchorage, Alaska in 1980. He has been a boat captain on Prince William Sound and built homes in Baldez. He has written four other books and also has edited several books. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines.

Bil Keane
created the
Family Circus
in 1960. It now appears in over fifteen hundred newspapers and is read by 100 million people daily. A new all-color hardcover book the
Family Circus—By Request
is available from Gayle Keane, 4093 Jefferson St., Napa, CA 94558.

John Keane
has spent twenty-five years helping pet owners recover their lost and stolen pets. His California-based business Sherlock Bones, Inc. provides nationwide and local services to help lost-pet owners quickly and efficiently “get the word out in their surrounding neighborhood about their missing pet”—the key to finding lost or stolen pets. To enjoy more stories of lost and found pets, visit his Web site at
www.sherlockbones.com
If you have stories you want to share with him, he can be reached by calling 800-942-6637 or by e-mail at
[email protected].

Jim Kerr
is the director of the Colorado Boys Ranch Horsemanship Program. For the past twelve years, he has instructed and nurtured hundreds of boys as they learn about horses. Prior to CBR, Jim also worked with young people as a teacher and coach. Colorado Boys Ranch is a nonprofit, residential treatment facility for young people with severe emotional and behavioral problems. Their horsemanship program and other special program opportunities for young people are funded through the generosity of contributors. For further information, please write to P.O. Box 681, La Junta, CO 81050 or call 719-384-5981.

Joe Kirkup
is the author of approximately sixty nonfiction essays published in various periodicals and paperbacks, including two in
Chicken Soup for the Pet
Lover’s Soul. Life Sentences,
an anthology, can be purchased through
MudTurtle.com
on the Internet, or by calling 860-572-0079 or sending an e-mail to
[email protected].

Cynthia Knisely
grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She moved to Arizona in 1978, where she was a reporter for the
Arizona Republic
until 1984. She brought Cassie with her from Arizona in 1989. Cassie’s health is declining rapidly now, but she is not suffering. Should it become necessary, her veterinarian, Dr. Weiss, will go to her house to put her to sleep. Cynthia is disabled and has fibromyalgia. She is the mother of a five-year-old and a special-needs six-year-old. Her husband’s fifteen-year-old daughter also lives with them.

Stephanie Laland
, a well-known speaker on animal-related issues, is the author of
Peaceful Kingdom: Random Acts of Kindness by Animals
and
51 Ways to
Entertain Your Housecat While You’re Out
. A workshop leader for people wishing to increase their connection to animals, she and her husband and many animal friends live in Felton, California.

Page Lambert,
author of
In Search of Kinship
and
Shifting Stars,
and contributor to
Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul,
is a Colorado native. She now lives on a small ranch in the Black Hills of Wyoming, where she loves to walk the deer paths with their new dog, Duke. A facilitator of unusual writing retreats, she can be reached by calling 307-283-2530 or by e-mail at
[email protected].

Sharon Landeen,
a retired elementary-school teacher, is the author and illustrator of two bilingual picture books,
When You Get Really Mad
and
Really, Riley.
She enjoys working with youth and was involved for twenty years with 4-H. She is a volunteer teacher in reading and art, but still finds the time for her writing as well as being “grandmother superior.” She can be reached at 6990 E. Calle Arandas, Tucson, AZ 85750 or by calling 520-886-1194.

Aletha Jane Lindstrom
of Battle Creek, Michigan, died May 4, 1998. She was born in 1908. She graduated from Olivet College and Western Michigan University. She was employed as an elementary-school teacher and later as an elementary-school librarian in the Lakeview school district. After retiring, she taught writing classes in the adult-education program at Kellogg Community College. She also was a freelance writer, who was published in
Reader’s Digest,
Catholic Digest, Guideposts
and many other publications. Aletha also published a children’s book,
Sojourner Truth.
She married Carl in 1943; he died February 5, 1998. She is survived by her son, Carl Timothy, a grandson and her brother.

Mike Lipstock’s
stories have appeared in previous volumes of the
Chicken
Soup for the Soul
series. They have also appeared in well over a hundred magazines and nine anthologies. He recently received his second nomination for a Pushcart Prize and a nomination for a story to be presented on National Public Radio. He lives in Jericho, New York and can be reached by calling 516-681-0171.

Peter Mandel
is a writer of books about animals for both children and adults, and currently pet columnist for the
Providence Journal Bulletin.
He lives in Providence with his wife, Kathy, and cat, Chuck. Mandel grew up in Manhattan and graduated from Middlebury College and Brown University. He has a book entitled
The Official Cat I.Q. Test.
His more recent books include
The Cat Dictionary, The Official Dog I.Q. Test,
and a picture book entitled
Red Cat,
White Cat,
which was named an American Bookseller “Pick of the Lists” and a Kirkus Reviews “Best of the Issue.” He likes baseball, ocean liners, Chinese food and walking around in the city of Paris.

Terry Perret Martin
is a freelance writer and a single mother of three-year-old Sophia. She runs her publicity/business-writing company from home with her cat on her lap and her two dogs sleeping under the desk! She and her father, an Emmy Award-winning comedy writer, have created the Professional Comedy Writing Correspondence Course. Terry can be reached at P.O. Box 1739, Agoura Hills, CA 91376-1739, by calling 818-707-0155, by fax at 818-707-0137 or by e-mail at
[email protected].

Susan McCullough
specializes in writing about pets and parenting topics. Her work has appeared in the
Washington Post, PetLife
and
Pets: Part of the Family.
She also has written for
Family Circle
and
Modern Maturity,
and has contributed to several pet-care books. She and her family live in Vienna, Virginia.

Cindy Midgette
lives in eastern North Carolina with her husband, Buddy, and children, Brent and Allie. Cindy is an avid animal lover. She supports Airedale rescue. Cindy can be reached at
http://www.airedale.org
.

Larry Monk
passed away November 15, 1998. He was married for twenty-five years. The last position he held was a realty specialist with 70th Regional Support Command. He spent ten years with the civil service.

Holly Manon Moore
is grateful to be a full-time mom-and-wife-at-home in Fairfield, Iowa. She has a B.F.A. in art and an M.A. in education administration which happily qualifies her for her activities as artist, writer, organic gardener, tree and animal lover. She has been a teacher for the Transcendental Meditation program for over twenty-five years.

Kate Murphy
is a writer and long-time cancer survivor. Her first bout with colon cancer was in 1983. Since 1993, she has been treated for colon, breast and ovarian cancer as well. She lives by a lake in upstate New York with her husband, three cats, and her golden retriever—and has no sign of cancer today. She is a founding member of the Colon Cancer Alliance.

Michael A. Obenski, V.M.D.,
is a 1972 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He is the owner and chief veterinarian of the Allentown Clinic for Cats, which he founded in 1978. Located in Allentown, Pennsylvania, the clinic is a veterinary hospital devoted exclusively to feline medicine and surgery. Doctor Obenski has been awarded the Alumni Award of Merit from the University of Pennsylvania for his contributions to veterinary literature. To date, he has written over two hundred magazine articles and has served for more than twenty years as a contributing author to
D.V.M. Newsmagazine.
He and his wife, Martina, reside in Zionsville, Pennsylvania, with cats, Spiffy and Rocket, and dogs, Brindle and Howdy. They have three grown children, Chad, Rachel, and Bryson.

Sheldon Oberman
is a writer, a storyteller of traditional Jewish tales and a high-school teacher. He is married, with three children and one young cat. His Web site,
www.mbnet.mb.ca/~soberman
,
has many stories and creative guides. He can be reached at 822 Dorchester Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba R3M 0R7.

Evelyn Olson
has spent most of her eighty-seven years in, or near, Ogilvie, which is a small town in central Minnesota. She attended and graduated from the Ogilvie School, and St. Cloud University. For thirty-five years, she taught in nearby rural schools; then, for the next ten years, she taught handicapped children in the Ogilvie School. On retiring, she was honored and presented with an award by the Minnesota Board of Education for her forty-seven years of teaching service. She had many pets in her life, but Brownie was her favorite. This was probably due to his long life, and his devotion to her and her entire family.

Lori Jo Oswald, Ph.D.,
lives in Alaska with her three dogs, three cats and two horses—all rescues. She writes and edits
Alaska Pet News
(subscriptions $18 a year), which focuses on animal issues, pet care, reducing pet overpopulation and rescuing homeless animals. Lori Jo can be reached at
Alaska Pet News,
P.O. Box 4083, Palmer, AK 99645 or by e-mail at
[email protected].

Jan Paddock
and her husband, Brad, began their life together three years ago with the help of a happy golden retriever puppy named Cognac. At that time, the rest of the “Janimal” house included two rescued cats: an eighteen-year-old Siamese and a sixteen-year-old tabby. Brad brought to the family a blue-and-gold macaw named Calypso. In the last year, both cats have passed over the Rainbow Bridge. The family has recently grown to include a new golden retriever puppy named Zany.

Lynn Pulliam
lives just south of Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband, two sons, four dogs and two cats. In addition to writing, she enjoys drawing, painting and gardening. She can be reached at
[email protected].

Nancy Roberts’s
first book,
North Carolina Ghosts and Legends,
was published at the suggestion of Carl Sandburg. His praise launched twenty-five books and began her career writing true ghost stories based on interviews.
Southern
Living
magazine calls Nancy “Custodian of the Twilight Zone.” Among her twelve books of supernatural stories are
Animal Ghost Stories, Civil War Ghosts
and Legends, Georgia Ghosts, South Carolina Ghosts
and
America’s Most Haunted
Places.
She is also an authority on pirates and is the author of
Blackbeard and
Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast
and
Blackbeard’s Cat.
Roberts’s books are available from Amazon or by calling 800-337-9420. A gifted storyteller and speaker, she can be reached by visiting her Web site at
www.nrobertsbooks.com
or by fax at 704-365-5309.

K. Salome-Garver
is an aspiring writer who is studying for her B.A. in social work. She currently makes her living as a bartender, which is a good job if you don’t drink, and a great job if you do—only one pays better. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her dog, Satchel Paige, and her two cats, Izzy and Slick. They are her children, and she loves them, even when they are bad. Kellie can be reached at
[email protected].

Allen M. Schoen, D.V.M.,
is coauthor of
Love, Miracles and Animal Healing
and editor of three textbooks on complementary and alternative veterinary medicine. He is a world-renowned lecturer and pioneer in this field and continues to maintain a referral practice in large- and small-animal alternative and complementary medicine in New York and Connecticut. He is the founder and director of the Center for Integrative Animal Health, a division of Global Communications for Conservation, Inc., and a recipient of numerous grants to develop complementary animal health care.

Maria Sears
is enjoying an active retirement. She’s a busy wife, mother and grandmother who enjoys traveling, volunteer work, music, books and many crafts. In her spare time, she’s writing her life stories. This story is part of the unforgettable experience of a city girl becoming a rancher’s wife. She can be reached by e-mail at
[email protected].

Jacqueline Shuchat-Marx
is cantor of Congregation Albert in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she creates and implements classes and programs in religious school and adult education. She was invested at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Her compositions have been performed in several synagogues. She cocreated a musical and dramatic presentation for two youth choirs at a citywide birthday commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and lends her voice to CD releases by Cantor Benjie-Ellen Schiller and Rabbi Joe Black.