The old adage advises “Counselor, heal thyself,” but Jan needs help.

Between her divorce and her unsympathetic school principal, counselor Jan is almost as damaged as the kids in her Wednesday Club who are not following the rules and are creating havoc in classrooms and on the playground. Mr. Pedersen has given her the edict “cure these kids” or else, the else being her job. Jan knows she needs to cure herself while she’s at it.

After graduating from Willamette University, Jo spent most of the next thirty years teaching, counseling, mothering, wifiing, and of course, writing. Her writing first appeared in small literary magazines and professional publications. Since retirement, she has had time to write five novels and two screenplays. Her stories and essays, as well as the novels, reflect her observations of women’s lives and the people who inhabit them: husbands parents, friends and strangers who happen by and change everything.