Ruth Sutton:  

grad school. However, we reneged on that promise and told her she can't have her back! She's our cat now. Gracie is a long-haired black & white cat who is a whopping 17 pounds and is talkative. Then there's Sophie, our baby. She found Tim one late-fall morning as he left work. We think she was just abandoned. But she found a good home. All Sutton pets are cosseted. My Job We now live in Albuquerque, New Mexico where I work as a Public Affairs Specialist for the U.S. Forest Service's new Human Resource group. Prior to accepting this position, I worked on the Hiawatha National Forest in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I was the writer-editor in the plannng shop as we revised the Forest Plan. The biggest challenge was that I only had two science classes in college and all the resource specialists only had 2 English classes, so they couldn't write well and I hadn't a clue what they were talking about! The end result was I learned a lot about rare plants, animals, timber harvests, etc. and they had documents that most people understood. And before that, I spent 14 years in the newspaper industry. I did earn a BA in Journalism, but have never worked as a reporter. But I did work in marketing, community relations and managed a classified advertising department. I worked for the Anchorage Daily News when we won our second Pulitzer Prize. That was very exciting.