Spunky Senior Terry Palardy Doesn't Let MS Get Her Down



Terry Palardy



I just discovered your blog a few weeks ago, and love the page I read. I'm fairly new at blogging, having only started at the end of November - but am enjoying it, and invite you to view mine (link below). I'm not unfamiliar with technology, and everything I know I have learned primarily from my young students, and my son.



 

  

Terry Palardy, with son, Rob, and husband, Rick,
at Rob's Paramedic Graduation.

  Bless my son. Twenty years ago, I sat at the table of a faculty meeting, hearing the principal announce that we would be going on line, and would need a webmaster to host our school's page in the district’s new website. We all looked at each other blankly. After an awkward minute, the principal looked at me and said "Terry, would you be able to do this? … with your son's coaching, of course?"  My son, like many of his peers, was more than adept at computers, seeming intuitively to anticipate and grasp each new developmental change in technology. And so I began, with Rob's help. I deposited the stipend into his college fund account. We did that together for awhile, until another teacher with skills joined us, and eventually took that over.



Terry Palardy with Husband, Rick, at
an MS Walk Last Spring



I just retired this past June, after a thirty year career in public education. I would have taught longer, but a belated diagnosis of multiple sclerosis took me out two years earlier than I'd wished. I began my new career as a writer by gathering up essays that I'd written for years prior, and self-publishing a book. I next gathered up the many poems I'd written for family members and published another, and then another teaching collection, and then another poetry collection, and then a small town commentary collection, and then I was ready to write the story of my diagnosis.

With those steps behind me, I am ready to start writing now purely for the joy of writing, and am planning a few more books for this winter. I've been invited to be the featured author for our small town library's new venture, a Local Author's Program, and I'll be speaking to an audience in February, both about my books and about becoming a self-published author. 

I look forward to reading more of your blog, Morgan, and joining you here now and again.

Sincerely,

Terry

Visit me at:

and http://terrysthoughtsandthreads.blogspot.com www.beyondoldwindows.com 

I've written books about Teaching, Poetry, Georgetown and Multiple Sclerosis.

See my Author Page at Amazon, where I'm published under my full name:Terry Crawford Palardy -

http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00580PJ9Y

Find medical links for MS at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Multiple-Sclerosis-an-Enigma/331324643544233

 

Please welcome Terry Crawford Palardy to Spunky Senior Authors and Talents!