It was bad enough to have come out of a chronic illness like Lyme's Disease with her positive energy intact.When Jennifer surveyed the new year, she was full of hope and so many plans. This go-getter lived for family and friend get-togethers, adventurous trips, and dinner parties at her comfortable home in Middle America. Her house was Party Central when the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl. But by the time March Madness rolled around, the basketball court lights went off. Just like they went off in other sporting arenas and in businesses and schools all over the world. The Covid-19 pandemic threatened to destroy Jennifer's carefully re-constructed life and her persona.She had dubbed herself a Joy Warrior in a little book she wrote to describe her journey to physical and spiritual wellness from the close brush with death she experienced prior to 2018. All too soon in 2020, she had to really strengthen her invisible suit of armor when isolation and a killer virus threatened the world. But the virus was just one curveball that the year lobbed at Jennifer's family. First, there was the murder of George Floyd, which this bastion of a mixed-race family took quite personally. And then there was the small tumor growing in her usually invincible husband's brain.Using instructive metaphors, a lot of dry wit, and a huge love for mankind, this dynamo of a woman teaches us all ways to persevere in the face of insurmountable obstacles. Not only does Jennifer persist and deflect all the Covid curveballs; she takes a public and vocal stand and fights some age-old prejudices and injustice. This woman of white privilege suddenly discovers what her children and husband have always feared as she fights the status quo in her middle-class neighborhood.
