Mary Anderson Stosich is quick to admit that her claim to fame is that she is married to and still madly in love with her husband, Al. After beginning their married life in Provo, Utah, they moved to Idaho, eventually ending up in South Jordan, Utah. Mary loves being back home in the valley of her birth and childhood. She loves serving in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and is presently the stake Young Women president. In her dedication to strengthening families, she has written for BYU's website foreverfamilies.net, served as a volunteer Institute instructor, speaks publicly, and counsels as a life coach.

Mary says that after volunteering as a liaison between birth mothers and adoptive parents, teaching preschool, giving piano lessons, teaching troubled youth, raising five children, chasing after fifteen grandchildren, and being married for thirty-four years, it is a natural thing to write a book just to see if someone would really pay attention!

Mary returned to college and graduated from BYU with a bachelor's in marriage, family, and human development the same December as her fiftieth birthday. "But," she says, "middle age has a reason to shout for joy - experience! Most things I have learned because I got out of bed almost every morning!"