Mary Schumacher:  

After a decade bouncing between LA and San Francisco, with time out for a year in Manhattan and forays into the deserts of Arizona and the wilds of the Northwest Cascades, I settled in Seattle in the late 1970s. My husband is a former illustrator. We met, decades ago, when we worked together on a project for the Seattle Opera. For 25 years I worked as an advertising writer for local and national agencies, on accounts as lofty as Boeing and, for a brief while, as irritatingly unavoidable as The Juiceman (I'm sorry). In the mid-90s, Mike and I launched our own business. We manufacture and market performance parts, which he designs, for Mopars (Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth) of the muscle car era. (If you have an old beat up Satellite or Scamp taking up space on...Expand for more