C’est Moi. Annie Alpert.

A few glimmers short of a twinkle.

Annie Alpert was once a comfortable middle-class wife and mother in New Jersey. Bad things happened and she lost her home, family, business, and health. She and Pansy, a Cane Corso Mastiff (CAN-ee COR-so packed what was left into a 23-foot Penske truck and moved in with her elderly parents in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Pansy died in February, 2009 of a massive cancerous tumor.

Credentials: 25 years in corporate computer systems analysis, desktop publishing, e-commerce, online book selling, newspaper reporting, copy writing, household management, animal training and artistic self-expression. She is motivated by most reward systems and is open to suggestions.

Currently enrolled in Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) as a fine arts major.