Jodie Paschall-Majerus was born in Denver, CO and has lived in Singapore, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington. She has been a Physical Therapist since 1992 and in a private practice that serves patients with lymphedema and wounds since 2007. Gardening, cooking, flower arranging, chicken wrangling, travel, movies, hiking, diving, and reading are her diversions of choice. At heart, she is writer, detoured by science and diverted by life. She believes in parenting by feel, cooking for real, art as escape, and gardening as capture. She has been an ExoSym wearer, est. 02/15/21, who hopes to walk more of the myriad and breathtaking paths the world offers up in the years to come.