Risa Nye is a lifelong resident of the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended the University of California, and earned master s degrees at both California State University East Bay and Saint Mary s College of California (MFA). Her articles and essays have appeared in a number of local and national publications, as well as in several anthologies. A coeditor of the anthology Writin on Empty: Parents Reveal the Upside, Downside, and Everything In Between When Children Leave the Nest, she also recently published an e-book based on her blog called Zero to Sixty in One Year: An Easy Month-by-Month Gui...