Betty Pack, who has been a member of a military family for fifty years, is a retired high school English teacher and former prize-winning columnist for the (now defunct) San Antonio Light and for Stars & Stripes, European edition. Betty describes herself as a theologian "of arrested development" and lives in San Antonio, Texas with Bill, the "cute guy" she impulsively married a few years ago when she was a mere 67 and he, 83.