This is the first year since I was 12 that my friend and collaborator Joan Smith Grey did not wish me a happy birthday. In recent years I was so glad that my birthday was one week before hers. The arrival of some wonderful, fun package in the mail always reminded me it was time…
I hate getting stuck in traffic. I am not a patient person, even though year after year I add: Learn Patience! to my New Year’s Resolutions. Funny, my family hates it when I get stuck in traffic too. Apparently I take every little delay personally. And I have this New York City cab driver driving…
I have to tell myself this all the time. And how lucky I am to have the problems I have. The Grinch: Too often Grinch-y feelings rear their ugly head and take over my thoughts. Instead of rejoicing that I have such a wonderful, big family, I agonize over spending $$$ to get them Christmas…
Rebecca Rodriguez is no stranger to IndexCardCure™. She’s been a loyal follower ever since she met Joan. Rebecca writes: When Joan started IndexCardCure several years ago she invited me to contribute material. I don’t recall if I told her a flat out “NO”, or if I said that I would think about it. Nothing ever…
Ideas take shape:Together Joan and I organized and distilled down the goals for our original collaboration. Then Joan produced our first Index Card. Eight years later, with the help of Joan’s friend and my new collaborator Rebecca Rodriguez, I rediscovered it on our website. Together we are better! Joan checked all the boxes! As I…
The friends and the friends-who-are-relatives of Joan Smith Grey gathered at the Military Women’s Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday to honor and celebrate an outstanding woman. The eulogies, the snapshot photo show, and the recording of Joan reading the Epilogue to her book accentuated some of Joan Grey’s many accomplishments. We revered Joan…
When you finish your load of laundry or empty the last drop from your dishwasher soap, what happens to the bottle? Check your nearest scenic waterfall. What if all of us just make one change? What if we all switch to a detergent that comes in cardboard instead of plastic? We know now that plastic…
I can’t wrap my head around losing Joan Grey. Intellectually, I knew it was coming. I saw her a week ago, Thursday. I could tell she was fading. She told me so too. She knew she didn’t have long. She could feel her body shutting down. But to have her really go? Even after she…
I did it! Pioneer Passage, book 3 in my Journey of Cornelia Rose Series just received the Pinnacle Book Award for BEST HISTORICAL FICTION Winter 2022. “Pioneer Passage is a truly delightful, meaty read that will satisfy any reader who enjoys an excellent adventure exceptionally well told.” Grant Leishman, Readers’ Favorite *****FIVE STARS I am…
A year ago on St Patrick’s Day, my friend, Joe, and I were driving to the DC Veterans’ hospital for Covid vaccines. I had lucked out and gotten my first shot space-available (remember the early vaccine days when age- or pre-existing conditions restrictions made getting vaccinated challenging?). On the way to the hospital, Joe was…
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