During a many-faceted career in bank management, teaching, insurance adjustment, and government administration, Kathleen MacQuilliam Caponiti found time to earn a master's degree by poring over coursework in the corners of neighborhood restaurants. She also raised a son and daughter, both of whom have established successful careers without apparent symptoms of serious neuroses. In the autumn of her life, Kathleen conducts an ongoing symposium for her grandsons and granddaughters regarding the perils of life, many of which had not been managed very well in her own youth.

Kathleen was born in Georgetown, DC, in 1943 and has been a native of the DC suburbs in Maryland throughout her adult years. She has been married to her husband, Fred, for over fifty-five years and has raised a son and daughter and has two granddaughters and two grandsons. She continually worked for sixty years in various professions since the age of fourteen. Her first job was in a bakery, and she had careers in the insurance and banking industries. She finally retired in 2018 at the age of seventy-four from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. While regaling her stories with coworkers, many of them encouraged her to write a book. With the free time that retirement allotted her, she has embarked on her first book (this one) and hopes you enjoy it.