Beatrice Abrams has been fascinated with how people interact, for good and bad, all her life. Since retiring from a career in pharmaceutical research and management, Beatrice has exercised the more creative side of her brain. An active creative writing group and poetry writing seminar member, she writes poems as a means of exploring the world. Beatrice participates in volunteer efforts in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where she resides with her husband and cats, and sits on the executive board of Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon, and Warren Counties and the board of the Institute of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Raritan Valley Community College. This is her first book. She can be reached at beawise.writes@gmail.com.