Grandma Mooned The Forest Ranger

About the Book

Welcome to the sandwich generation. The baby boomers are caring for the elderly parents and often their grandchildren, all at the same time.

This is a story about the difficulties of dealing pleasantly with an aging parent who has health problems, can’t hear, often lacks cognitive reasoning and never has liked me very much. Nevertheless, who is better equipped to give a mother a loving home and understanding? I get upset at times but rarely show it because she’s my Mom. No matter what the consequences to me, I, the martyr, continue the day with a smile, looking for the rainbow. It’s out there somewhere if I just keep searching.

At times this story will sound disrespectful but it is my way of coping. I tried to get this story written while she was still alive, knowing I would feel terribly guilty writing about some of the episodes after her death.

Throughout all the trials and tribulations there were times when we could still laugh together and reminisce. To know that I have given her comfort in her final years is good, but as she used to say, “Hell, I’ll out live all my family!” But that prediction did not come true. If it had, I would hope that someone would throw this book in the lake before she had a chance to read it, otherwise she would have peed on my grave.

About the Author

Jorjan grew up in Batavia, Ohio. She attended the Cincinnati College of Music as a child. Her professional career as a ballerina began at the age of fourteen. After college she went to New York to follow her dream as a dancer. She eventually made her way to Las Vegas where she danced in the big extravaganzas on the strip. She became one of the first female patrol officers for the Metropolitan Police Department. Both she and her husband were cops. Later, she transferred to McCarran International Airport where she was an operations coordinator handling bomb threats, hijackings, emergency landings, and plane crashes. She has an insatiable appetite for learning evidenced by degrees in five different fields. She attended the University of Cincinnati, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and the University of Humanistic Studies. Psychology was her forte. After internship with a psychologist, she opened her own office as a motivational therapist. She worked two jobs for six years while going to college and raising a family. Her hobbies are gardening, the Japanese floral art of Oshibana, graphology, traveling the world, and collecting thimbles. She has two sons, Gregory and Travis. Each one has a book written about them. She also wrote her husband’s biography titled “Up by the Bootstraps”.