Chicken Soup for Every Mom's Soul (37 page)

Jacklyn Lee Lindstrom
, retired, at last has the time to concentrate on oil painting and writing. She just completed a novel about a teenage girl growing up in the 1950s, a time when life seemed so simple (on the surface, anyway.) Jacklyn lives at 314 Windsor Court, Spearfish, South Dakota.

Vicki Marsh Kabat
received her bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia. She is editor of
Baylor Magazine
for Baylor University in Waco, Texas. She wrote a newspaper humor column for ten years which was distributed nationally. Her work appeared in
Chicken Soup for the
Golden Soul.
She and her husband, Bruce, have three grown sons: Michael, Jeffrey and Brian. Please e-mail her at
[email protected].

Linda Masters
is the proud wife, mother of three, and grandmother of four. She and her husband Les, are restoring their 170 year old home located alongside western New York’s Eric Canal. Despite her battle with multiple sclerosis, Linda is currently enjoying her career in obstetrics and gynecology, after having been a professional mom and volunteer for ten years. Linda’s son, Josh, a Lance Corporal in the Special Securities Division of the Marine Corps was awaiting deployment to Saudi Arabia when he was killed by a drunken driver.

Renee Mayhew
teaches prekindergarten in North Carolina where she writes children’s books and paints in her spare time. Her husband and children are her greatest inspiration.

Paula McDonald
has sold over a million copies of her books on relationships and gone on to win numerous awards worldwide as a columnist, inspirational feature writer and photojournalist. Paula McDonald lives on the beach in Rosarito, Mexico, and writes to the sound of the waves. She can be contacted in the United States by writing to Paula McDonald, PMB 724, 416 W. San Ysidro Blvd., Ste. L, San Ysidro, CA 92173 or by e-mailing
[email protected].
Or visit her Web site at
www.paulamcdonald.com
.

Kim McLarin
is the author of the critically acclaimed novels
Taming It Down
and
Meeting of the Waters.
She is a former journalist for the
New York Times
and the
Philadelphia Inquirer
and is currently writer-in-residence at Emerson College.

Walker W. Meade
began to write stories at the age of fourteen. When he was twenty,
Collier’s
magazine published his first short story. He wrote short fiction for the
Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Gentleman’s Quarterly
and
The Texas
Quarterly
among others. He also wrote nonfiction form any magazines. He began his publishing career as articles editor of
Cosmopolitan,
became the managing editor of that magazine and then managing editor of
Reader’s Digest
Condensed Book Club. His last position in publishing was as president and editor in chief of Avon Books where he published such writers as Jorge Amado, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Adams, Colleen McCullough, Margaret Atwood and Eric Segal. Upstart Press published his first novel,
Unspeakable Acts
in August 2001.
Adam Rising
is his second novel.

Bonnie Michael
lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her work has won state and national awards and has appeared in twelve anthologies including
When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple.
She wrote for public radio and has been published in
Good Housekeeping
and literary magazines.

Jann Mitchell
is an American writer living in Stockholm, Sweden. She and her Swedish husband travel widely. She sponsors a preschool and AIDS orphans in East Africa. A frequent
Chicken Soup
contributor, she is the author of ‘’Home Sweeter Home’’ and ‘’Love Sweeter Love.’ ’Contact Jann at
[email protected].

Susan Clarkson Moorhead
is a children’s librarian and writer in Westchester County, New York. She is currently working on writing a mystery series and a children’s book. She loves anything to do with books, words, and writing, and although her family might find it hard to believe—she loves her three kids and husband even more than the printed page! You can e-mail her at
[email protected].

J. Eva Nagel, Ph.D.
, is the proud mother of four, grandmother of two and wife of one in upstate NewYork. She is a Waldorf teacher and a psychotherapist. She co-founded Side By Side, a Youth Leadership program that uses the arts to teach diversity and leadership. When not growing people she nurtures flowers and vegetables in her ever-expanding garden. She can be reached at
[email protected].

Sally Nalbor
earned a B.A. and law degree from Creighton University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia College, Chicago. Her writing has appeared in a variety of publications, and she received Midwest Writers 2003 Manny Award in nonfiction. She recently completed a collection of short stories,
Missing Children.

Betsey Neary
attended Drezel University and she is a housewife and mother of two wonderful adult children. Betsey enjoys being with her children, traveling with her husband Tom, quilting and reading. She resides in Omaha, Nebraska. Betsey can be reached at
[email protected].

James A. Nelson
holds a B.A. in economics from Eastern Washington University. Divorced with several grandchildren and four children, he has self-published a book entitled
The Way IT Was
and
The Way It IS—Fifty Nostalgic
Short Stories.
He has been published over sixty times locally, nationally and internationally, including a story in
Chicken Soup for the Expectant Mother’s Soul.

Peggy Newland-Goetz
was awarded New Hampshire’s Art Council fiction fellowship for 2005. She has published in
Chelsea, Mississippi Review, Northern New
England Review,
and
Grit,
and her essays have appeared in Breakaway Books anthology
Bike Love.
Her memoir,
The Adventure of Two Lifetimes
has been optioned for film. She has recently completed her first novel.

Phyllis Nutkis
taught preschool and kindergarten for fifteen years. She now works as a grantwriter for a nonprofit social service agency. She published her first book, a children’s picture book, in 2004. She and her husband have three children and are also the grandparents of two delightful little boys. You may contact her at
[email protected].

Erica Orloff
is a novelist who lives in Florida and is the author of
Spanish Disco
(declared “hilarious” by
Cosmopolitan
magazine),
The Roofer, Diary of a Blues
Goddess,
bestselling
Urban Legend
and others. She lives with her family and their menagerie of pets, and she may be reached at her Web site:
www.ericaorloff.com
.

Jaie Ouens
writes plays and short stories and lives in Townsville, Northern Australia. In this tropical city, Jaie also paints pictures and acts in professional theatre. Various of the plays have been created with young people, and Jaie also works frequently on arts and cultural development projects involving women.

Mark Parisi
’s “Off the Mark” comic panel has been syndicated since 1987 and is distributed by United Media. Mark’s humor also graces greeting cards, T-shirts, calendars, magazines, newsletters and books. Lynn is his wife/business partner, and their daughter, Jenny, contributes with inspiration (as do three cats).

Victoria Patterson
is the mother of two boys, Cole and Ry Patterson, ages six and four, and lives in South Pasadena, California. She is currently at work on her second novel. She earns money as a waitress at a fine dining establishment. She is known to tip well. She lives in South Pasadena, California, with her family: Chris, Cole and Ry Patterson.

Saritha Prabhu
is originally from India and has been living in the United States for twelve years. A freelance writer and newspaper columnist, she also enjoys cooking, reading and traveling. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and two sons. E-mail her at
[email protected].

Carol McAdoo Rehme
, one of
Chicken Soup
’s most prolific contributors, recognizes motherhood as her most important calling—it keeps her humble and hopping. She is “Mom” to four plus two sons-in-love. Carol directs a nonprofit, Vintage Voices, Inc., which brings interactive programming to the vulnerable elderly. Contact her at
[email protected];
www.rehme.com
.

Carla Riehl
is a national speaker and author. Her motivational seminars have been attended by thousands in churches, universities and Fortune 500 classrooms. Carla won an Emmy for singing TV commercials and has recorded four Christian pop albums. She loves to teach creative writing and enjoys helping people put their experiences down on paper. Her stories have appeared in
Chicken Soup for the Christian Woman’s Soul, Recovering Soul, Bride’s
Soul
and others.

Phyllis Edgerly Ring
writes on issues of family, culture, health and spirituality from her New Hampshire home. Her articles and essays have appeared in
Christian Science Monitor, Hope, Mamm
and
Yankee.
A former nurse, she lived and worked in China, where she taught English to kindergartners. More information about her current book projects is available at
www.phyllisring.com
.

Dan Rosandich
lives in Michigan and has spent twenty-six years as a full-time cartoonist. He operates his online cartoon catalog,
www.danscartoons.com
and licenses his cartoons for use in presentations, calendars, newsletters, books and Web sites, etc. Dan can be reached any time at
[email protected]
or at his Web site to access information.

Reverend Kathi Rose
lives in Wisconsin with her husband Steve and daughter Sarah. She speaks at women’s retreats/conferences on the biblical perspective of wholeness and healing. She also authored the book,
I Climbed a
Mountain: A Mother’s Diary of Tragedy, Grief and Triumph.
You can contact Reverend Rose at
[email protected].

Kristy Ross
is a teacher at Grace School in Houston, Texas. Her work has appeared in educational magazines, the
Houston Chronicle,
and other
Chicken
Soup for the Soul
books. Her beautiful mother, Hazel Abernathy Hamm, is a continuing inspiration for living life with dignity, integrity and grace.

Joan Sedita
has been an educator for twenty-five years. She currently is a reading consultant and teacher trainer. She lives with her husband and two children in Massachusetts. Her e-mail is
[email protected].

Vikrum Seth
and
Deeptee Seth
became soul mates in 2002 in New Delhi, India. Blessed with their inspirational daughter Chinmya, the real creditor for this short story. Vikrum is successfully managing his hospitality business. Deeptee looks upon grooming Chinmya relatively well, expecting the least from what future has to offer. E-mail at:
[email protected].

Beth Crum Sherrow
graduated from Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky, and attended Midway College. After living in Versailles, Kentucky for eighteen years she relocated this year to Ocala, Florida to work for a major thoroughbred horse farm. Beth has three boys, Seth, twenty-four, Jared, eighteen and Gus who is twelve. Beth loves reading, writing, traveling and spending time with her husband, Mike.

Deborah Shouse
is a Kansas City-area speaker, editor and writer who believes in celebrating the extraordinary in everyday life. Her latest book is
Making Your
Message Memorable: Communicating Through Stories
(Crisp Publications). Her work has appeared in
Reader’s Digest, Newsweek, Family Circle
and
Ms
. Visit Deborah’s Web site at
www.thecreativityconnection.com
.

Jen Singer
is the author of
14 Hours ’Til Bedtime: A Stay-at-Home Mom’s Life in 27
Funny Little Stories,
and the creator of
www.MommaSaid.net
,
a Web site for at-home moms.

Alice Steinbach
received the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing while working at the
Baltimore Sun.
Currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, she has taught journalism at Princeton and Washington & Lee Universities and is the author of two books:
Educationg Alice: Adventures of a Curious Woman
and
Without
Reservations.

Joan Sutula
has previously been published in
Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog
Lover’s Soul
. She has poetry appearing in numerous anthologies, including ten
Lyrical Iowa Poetry
books. She lives with her husband, a cat and a dog. She loves writing, hiking, and her children and grandchildren. Contact her at
[email protected].

Georgette Symonds
works as a nurse on Long Island. She coauthored
Thoughts On
Life from My Desk Chair.
Georgette enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends. She is currently editing her novel about an Irish family and plans on having it published next year. Contact her at
[email protected].

Mother Teresa
gave her life in service to the poorest of poor. Inspired by God, she opened hospices, orphanages and homes for lepers, founding the Missionaries of Charity in the process before her death in 1997. She has received universal acclaim, including the Nobel Peace Prize.