About the Co-Authors

Carol McAdoo Rehme

Author - Editor - Speaker

     Carol claims motherhood as her most important calling. Her four children – born in a six-year span – left home at the same rate in which they arrived. Now “grammy” to three, she finds herself once again dispensing counsel, cookies, and kisses.
     A prolific author and editor for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Carol feathers her empty nest as an award-winning writer. She is the co-author of five gift books and actively freelances and ghost-writes for multiple publications and corporations.
     Carol divides her time and attention between the keyboard and her other passion – directing a grassroots nonprofit agency. Vintage Voices, Inc., provides interactive, energetic arts programs to the frail elderly across Northern Colorado. From this vantage point among the aged, Carol taps into cross-generational insight and wisdom that emphasize the importance of maintaining family ties.
     Learn more about Carol at www.rehme.com
 

Patricia Cena Evans

     Patricia Cena Evans has gained valuable insight, understanding and compassion during her twenty-year professional career as a Women’s Healthcare Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse-Midwife, free-lance author, speaker, wife, mother and empty nester. She has experienced first-hand her own precious children growing into adults and leaving the nest. She is appreciative of the multiple roles and life-stages women face – women who feel the “empty nest” is often over-looked and under-realized as a traumatic time in their lives, and mentors them through the passages from one season to the next. The most important thing she instills -- whatever life-phase they may find themselves -- is the comfort that they are never alone on the journey.