Leigh Bale lives in Nevada. She met her husband Steve, when he had just started graduate school. Two weeks later, they were engaged to be married. That was twenty-seven years ago and there still crazy about each other. She has two children; a son and a daughter. Her daughter is a chef extroardinaire and one of the smartest things she ever did was to teach her to cook. Her son is a U.S. Marine. He and his wife have two daughters.