Cathy Teets, Headline Books, added the beautiful photos for the covers and made other improvements to the ‘look.’ Since publication, a new ‘army’ has stepped up to help. Their faith has caused additional printings of this book. Special thanks go to the following:

My son Frank, his wife Karen, their daughters Marissa and Adrienne, my daughter Kathy, her sons Bryan, Evan, and Nicholas, my mother-in-law Louise Parker, niece Gretchen Czach, and cousins Teena Tuenge and Ingrid Ward.

Friends and caregivers, especially my early supporters Beverly Bisbee, Barbara Brownridge, Jack Butler, Ray Carlson, Louise Cecil, Jack Chapin, Susan Cowart, John & Linda DePerro, Lou DeWilde, Janet Donahue, Joe Durant, Julie Graham, Boyd Griffin, Barbara Haxton, Tammy Hoover, Dorothy Johnson, Clarence Keitel, Ken Kincel, Nancy and Danny Kiser, Peggy Kline, Ida Kolbow, Margaret Kopp, Barbara Leary, Al and Penny Linch, Patty Long, Char Lugar, Mavis Mangum, Diane Mehringer, Edward and Hilda Ortiz, Patty O’Toole, Trish Palmer, Marvin Parker, Nancy Parsons, Laura and Michael Pierce, Bernie & Peggy Ragan, Don Rakey, Theresa Ransone, Alice & Brock Richardson, Dick Rosenthal, Frank Sax, Andrew Schiavone, Helen Schultze, Juliana Frontino Scott, Margaret Sheridan, Mac Showers, Suzan Smith, Jenny Snellings, Howard Soroos, Bill Stein, Merv Stoltzfus, Sunny Transue, Charlie Van Winkle, Kathy Wagner, Nancy Walbridge, Roberta Walmsley, Al and Jewell West, Eileen Wilkinson, Susan Wisniewski, Betty Yurkewitch, and Joanne Zito.

Chauncey Kopp, General Manager of the Warrenton Borders, and his staff, for helping to make my first book store signing a record-breaking event.

Cecilia Mason and West Virginia Public Radio for their interview on "Aging with Grace and Dignity." All those wonderful people in the media who wrote those early feature articles and reviews (Diana Bell and Crystal Schelle, The Journal, Martinsburg, WV; George Rowan, Fauquier Times-Democrat, Warrenton, VA; Bill Sherrod, Cooperative Living Magazine; Matthew Swift and Kemal Kurspahic, Connection Newspapers, VA; Tara Slate Donaldson, Gainesville Times, VA; Josh Eiserike, Ellen Mitchell, and Jasmina Meyer, Journal Messenger, Manassas, VA).

Sherrie Antonwicz, Anne Archer, Laura Baldwin, Gail Ball, Lester Bowles, Theresa Brasch, Pamela Coyle, Paula Cullen, Anita Danigelis, Diana Dearing, Rich DiRusso, Elaine Drew, Meg Eisemann, Larry Frounselter, Stephen Fulchino, Ray Harrison, Caroline Haskin, Alquita Hilzinger, Joane Hugh, Terri Jolly, Kate Jones-Orr, Janes Kallies, Sally Kramer, Carol Marcks, Laura Lent, Judy McAfee, Lauren McLaughlin, Jane McQuade, Vicki Muzzy, Jim Oliver, Mary Lou Pratt, Julie Pringle, Barbara Rittinger, Martha Rubio, Noel Rutherford, Lisa Sampley, Linda Seitz, Lucia Silva, Laurie Sundborg, Rebecca Tanner, Maggie Tarelli-Falcon, Suzanne Thompson, Margaret Walther, Rollie Welch, Kathy Wiese, Karen Wiggins, Lizhen Zhao, and all those Libraries across the country who stocked my book before the reviews came out.

The West Virginia Writers’ group especially Susan Bedwell, Beverly Bisbee, Sally Brinkman, Eric Fritzius, Leigh Horne, the late Joe McCabe, Wanda Riggle, and Craig Tucker.