Ann Spier has always had a dog in her life, except when she was in college and graduate school. She sang operas and taught on the college campus. She was broker-owner of real estate offices and operations manager of an investment company. She traveled the world singing and teaching, but throughout, she wrote: children's books, plays, adult books, mysteries, sci fi and fantasy, diaries, letters, whatever captured her interest. But her favorite subject was and will remain her beloved dogs.