Hi, I’m Jodi!
Thank you so much for making your way to my site.
I am a teacher, small business owner, and NOW AN AUTHOR!
Sometimes, the answers you’ve spent years searching for are found in a single afternoon’s conversation.
At thirty-two, Leah Anderson is experiencing an identity crisis. Feeling powerless and unsure where her marriage, career, or friendships stand, she seeks solace from her Grandma Maddie, fully expecting to be placated with the usual array of biblical advice which Gram, now in her nineties, is known for. Instead, she discovers that she doesn’t know her grandma as well as she thought.
As Maddie comes to see how powerless Leah feels, she decides to share her true life story with her granddaughter, including the years when every aspect of Maddie’s life was dictated by men—first her cruel grandfather, then an undeserving man who stole her heart. Leah is the first person she’s ever trusted with it. Leah thought Gram had led a simple, happy, uncomplicated life, but she soon realizes that people’s lives are made up of far more than meets the eye.
But can the sudden shift of seeing Maddie not just as a grandmother, but as a woman not so different from herself give Leah the courage she needs to mend her own life?
A bit about me…
I am a life-long lover of writing. Countless hours of my youth were spent on the banks of Cornstalk Creek in Montgomery County, Indiana, journal or writer’s notebook in hand. Having grown up with a large, close-knit extended family, my writing often centers on familial relationships. I am now a high school English teacher and small business owner in Northwest Indiana. I have a Bachelor’s degree in English Education from Indiana State University and a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Indiana University. I share my home with my partner, Josh, and our three dogs. This is my first novel.
