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Karen Pinney

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Karen Pinney Hockings grew up an only child in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She was an avid reader with aspirations of one day becoming an author. Her writing career, on the back burner for over fifty years, is about to launch in her early seventies motivated by the need to share a story about the timelessness of love and the heartbreak of loss.

A late bloomer, Karen had her son on Christmas morning after turning thirty-three. She earned her master’s degree at fifty-five. She met and married the love of her life, Jim Hockings, at sixty-seven.

She retired as an executive director in an assisted-living community in 2012 to join her husband in Canada. Since his death, she resides in Tampa, Florida, with her miniature schnauzer, Raleigh, working as a co ...more

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I'm Just Sayin'

After reading a recent post on a Senior Housing Forum written by Steve Moran (Senior Housing Industry Blogger and regional business development officer for Vigil Health Solutions, I felt a surge of frustration. It appears that journalists continue to attack the assisted living profession, pointing fingers and citing one or more isolated incidents or rehashing issues long since r Read more of this blog post »

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