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Mary Jo Doig

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Mary Jo Doig has been editing life-writing and facilitating women’s writing circles for 20 years. Her stories have been published in Inside and Out: Women’s Truths, Women’s Stories and Kitchen Table Stories.
Mary Jo writes in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where she enjoys quilting, gardening, hiking, and spending time with friends, family & her rescue pets.
Patchwork is her first book.

Remembering the Former Rockbridge Area Free Dental Clinic

December 25, 2011 – I sit on the couch in front of my wood stove on this crisp Christmas morning. The gentle flames and nurturing heat warm me and fill me with peace. I’m reflecting that this holiday brings the perfect backdrop theme of re-birth to my life this day. My sweet cat Button is curled by me, his head resting on the arm of the couch like a pillow. His feet curl in precious ways that deep

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