ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICK (BA English, MS Philosophy) was a city desk reporter for The Salt Lake Tribune; promotion director of KUED, Utah’s public television station; and an associate professor at the University of Utah before moving to California in 1974 to teach philosophy and humanities at Monterey Peninsula College. She is also a freelance journalist who travels to, and writes about, Nature’s romantic places. She has authored five books: A Quixotic Companionship: Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson; Ethics for Rascals; Doing It with the Cosmos: Henry Miller’s Big Sur Struggle for Love Beyond Sex; Shepherds of Pan on the Big Sur-Monterey Coast; and Traveling Backward: Curious Journeys and Quixotic Quests beyond the Youth of Old Age. Her essays and features have appeared in many periodicals.