Gail WaetjeGail Waetje’s sixty-five years have been divided between three houses on a farm she’s never left. After her ten-year career in the management, marketing, and leasing of commercial real estate (mostly malls), she opened Walla Walla’s first upscale saln/spa. An ex–rodeo queen, her achievements range between winning a statewide speech contest, being selected Editor’s Choice in a national poetry contest, and being crowned “Miss Coast Guard” in a run-down Elks Club while wearing an all-white, rocket-busted, Miss American one-piece. Gail is married to a guy whose proposal of “Maybe we should we make this thing legal” has lasted forty-five years. Together, they have two wonderful daughters, six squirrely grandchildren, and a revolving door of basset hounds. She currently resides in Walla Walla, Washington. Read More Read Less