Jean Sidney Blomquist

Jean, born and schooled in Seattle Washington, moved to San Diego after graduation where she and her husband raised three children. She worked in the field of medicine for thirty years. She was known for her humerous letters to family and friends, and business articles for the medical office workplace. In 1970 she took up writing short, slice-of-life stories and sold the first one in 1972. Her writing changed course when, in 1990, her husband was diagnosed with a deadly …