"Uplifting Good Fortune" by Judie Holcomb-Pack

 – What we never considered was aerodynamics.

With any break in the traffic, we dashed into the roadway and picked up the pieces.

After a career in public relations, marketing and special events, Judie Holcomb-Pack retired from a local nonprofit and immediately switched gears and became the assistant editor of a weekly newspaper for the African American community in Winston-Salem. She is a member of Winston-Salem Writers and writes poetry, short stories, essays, and ten-minute plays. She especially enjoys interviewing and writing about interesting older adults for The Chronicle's monthly section, “For Seniors Only.”

Author’s Talk

Judie Holcomb-Pack

Having spent most of my career in marketing and public relations writing advertising copy and press releases, I vowed when I retired that I would focus on honing my creative writing skills, focusing on short stories and poetry. As soon as I retired, I was offered a position with a weekly community newspaper to edit their monthly publication for older adults. Later I became the newspaper's associate editor with one of my responsibilities being editing press releases, just like the ones I used to send out. It's ironic that the story I wrote for the Personal Story Publishing Project, Uplifting Good Fortune, is about a precarious experience I had when I worked in marketing.  I guess I've come full circle.—Judie Holcomb-Pack