I share my house with my lab, Alex. He is a 75 lb lap dog. Besides my full-time job, I am a free-lance writer and I have self-published 3 cookbooks. Let's Get This Party Started!, Raquel's Just Desserts and Slow Easy. They are available at my website www.auntpurplescooking.com low fat, good tasting food of all types. I love trying out new recipes. I seldom make the same thing twice. The past couple years I have made Thanksgiving dinner for my Mom and my sister and her family. I'm also pretty proud of the dog cookies I made recently. Alex loves them! I hate throwing away a bunch of ingredients on something that just doesn't turn out quite right.