About the Author

Laura Mahony Photography, Denver, Colorado.

Mary “Corky” Treacy Thompson recently embarked on her third career when she wrote her first book, Of Rainbows in Puddles, in 2013. A stay-at-home mom and professional volunteer actively involved for many years in PTA, scouting and the athletic and social activities of her daughter and two sons, she then followed a professional, paid path as the alumnae director of her alma mater, Manhattanville College, and as the executive director of the Westchester Association of Insurance and Financial Professionals. During that time, she actively served in the social justice ministries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Scarsdale, New York, and in 1993 was elected to the first of two terms on the board of education, of which she was also the president in 1997–98. In 2003, Corky and her husband, Greg, moved to Heritage Eagle Bend in Aurora, Colorado, where she continues her community involvement and is a member of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul at Our Lady of Loreto Catholic Church. She has been a mentor to incarcerated women in the Making Choices program at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility since 2006. In her leisure, Corky enjoys books, travel and the time she and her husband spend with their family, which now includes seven grandchildren in Colorado, Virginia and Connecticut. As a preteen, Corky aspired to be another Louisa May Alcott, holing up in her attic to write short stories on an orange crate, but she laughs at the realization that it took her sixty-plus years to complete her first book.