Dancing on the Ceiling: A Girl's Life and Beyond

About The Author: As the mother of three I spent a lot of time taking my girls to and from school classes camp sporting events and doctorsappointments. Dancing on the Ceiling: A Girls Life and Beyond is about my middle daughter Jennifer.She was active healthy and physically strong until she turned twenty when she was diagnosed with leukemia in December of 1995. We spent a lot of time together during her devastating illness. After her passing many things happened inpiring me to write her story. Since I knew Jennifer for her entire life I feel qualified to write about her.I was born on April 14 1947 in Pasadena California the youngest of three children of Peggy and Sydney Maduff. At age seven Imoved from Los Angeles to Chicago with my parents and two older brothers. Shortly after we arrived there we learned that my mother was adopted and that she had a brother two sisters three nieces a nephew and many other relatives.After graduatimg from Oak Park River Forest High School in 1964 I attended the University of Iowa where I met my husband andgraduated with a B.A Bob and I were married in 1968 and stayed in Iowa City for another year. In 1969 we moved to ChampaignIllinois where he went to law school. Shortly after Lisa was born in 1973 we relocated to Portland Oregon where Jennifer was bornin 1975 and Naomi in 1978.I taught pre school and substituted off and on volunteered at an elementary school library and a community library and also helpedat my husbands law office. I make scrapboks occassionally knit and crochet take snapshots and make photo greeting cards. I also took oil painting classes and painted several pictures. I am an avid reader of mostly fiction as well as books about religion and spiritualsubjects.When Jennifer was sick I took her to doctors and clinic appointments. In 1996 we lived in Seattle Washington for three monthswhere she had a bone marrow transplant. I spent time with her in three different hospi