My name is Cheryl Brand (Brand is writers name). My legal name is Cheryl G. I have been writing for over 30 years. I have four books published in the Christian genre and can be found on Amazon. Com or any bookstore. I live in Washington State USA and have been here for 45 years. In case you don't live here or have not looked at it on a map -- one side is very mild climate such as I grew up with in England, and the other side is desert -- such as I had no idea about before I lived here. It can be very hot up to and over 100 degrees, and very dry. In the fall there is a lot of pollen and some people call it the allergy capital of the world. On occasion there are desert winds that are quite forbidding -- most people will retreat into their houses to escape such a wind. I once had a car that had the paint taken off of one side of it because it was out in one such wind all day in the parking lot where I worked. So with that in mind, I w...