Rescuing Barbara

About Cass J McMain

Cass McMain was born in Albuquerque and raised in the far North Valley among the cottonwoods. Her first love was always houseplants and she now maintains a house full of them. Her background as a greenhouse manager led to a long career in garden center management but when the bottom fell out of the local industry she took a new path. Or rather an old path; Cass started writing at the age of six knocking out stories on her typewriter. While her love of nature came in part from her father a man with the heart of a farmer and the soul of a philosopher much of the writing Cass did as a child was done to please her mother a woman with the heart of a philosopher the soul of a demon and the unquenchable thirst of the mind reserved for the brilliant. Recently Cass's writing muse has again been speaking to her: a voice she stopped paying attention to a long time ago. Her plants some of which she has had since she was nine years old remain the heart of her life but now she has a desire to express herself in other ways. Bowed but not broken Cass keeps her eye on the horizon looking for a greenhouse to manage. Her favourite saying these days is that was then; this is now.