Kay Wanner had worked as a legal secretary for lawyers for many years. “I was 21 and worked for a probate attorney in Simi Valley and became intrigued by wills and probates,” she said. “At that time we didn’t yet have trusts.” Wanner said she told attorneys she worked for that she would do the…

How would you like to spend Christmas in Palm Springs with staunchly Reaganite Republican parents, two liberal adult children and an even more liberal, recently sober aunt? Sound ideal? It is. “It really is so timely with the political environment,” said Suzanne Avalon, Idyllwild Actors Theatre founder, who plays the superbly coiffed Republican mother Polly…