Jackson, Joann Lakin: - About the author: Coming home to Irish Wolfhounds for some 50 years, showing them, being involved with other Irish Wolfhound activities filled out JoAnn Lakin Jackson's busy life as a kindergarten teacher at Cherrydale Primary School in Steilacoom, Washington. Now retired, she shares her life with her husband, Paul, and their Border Terrier, Duggan.Besides showing her dogs here in the U.S., she has put titles on her dogs at Canadian and International shows and attained obedience as well as other working titles on her dogs.While she was teaching, she often adapted well-known children's stories into plays for her students to perform. After retiring, she has written two collections of short stories, Unexpected Diversity Tales, followed by a collection of stories, Naught Dog Tails Tales, written by Duggan himself, with help from JoAnn.. JoAnn and Paul are both writers, belonging to Plateau Area Writer's Association, a writing group in the South Sound area of Puget Sound in Washington State, which is where the two met.