Pekingese and pot stickers, yoga and the Vols, Russian icons and Tibetan thankas, foxes and squirrels and chipmunks, birds of every feather - Marie Carroll adores them all! She is a former Congressional aide who has volunteered as a docent at museums in San Francisco, Singapore, Bangkok and Philadelphia, where her great interest is in Asian art. Today, the Tennessee native lives and writes on Philadelphia's Main Line.