about
Judith Norris
Multiple Sclerosis Success Guide: 12 Tips to Energize Your MS Life, introduced in her newly designed website judithnorris.com by Kayla George.
As an Author, she writes about 65 years of living, teaching full-time, and many other activities in her book set for publication in March 2024 to coincide with the National Multiple Sclerosis Society MS Awareness Month. She plans to write a series of books, a few for children, and an online course to follow this first book. MS Success Guide provides help for MS patients’ fatigue issues, pain, bladder and bowel incontinence, and other MS symptoms.
Judigail‘s discussion of the 12 strategies she developed to earn two degrees plus a Reading Certification and other activities while teaching full-time, direct church choirs and high school choruses, Australian travel to teach advanced music theory, integrate a southern Virginia elementary school, serve a three-year term as president-elect, president, presidential advisor for Martinsville (VA) Education Associaton, sing/perform with Choral Societies, help Cambodian Hmong refugees develop their vocabularies to pass immigration testing to become US citizens and write a published column for a retail concern in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Judith sincerely desires to help other MS patients realize they can have a successful life by following the 12 Tips she explains in her book. The chapter titles include:
- Attitude for Happiness
- Goals for Focus
- Exercise for Strength
- Nutrition for Health
- Music for Merriment
- Laughter for Joy
- Prayer for Hope
- Medication for Support
- Meditation for Memories
- Motivation for Action
- Visualization for Verifying
- Purpose for Promises
- Wrapping for Thirteen
- Author-Speak for All
- Mobility for Managing
- Stories for Fun
As a Freelance Writer, her exciting, informative, and amusing Blog "Judigail Jabbers," Laughter * Life * Love; are the discussion topics. She also writes on Medium.com and LinkedIn.com. Mickie Chaney Meyer, former housemate and longtime best friend from the 1970s, dubbed her Judigail. Mickie says, "You were Judi when we met, then started using your middle name, so it seemed natural for me to call you Judigail. don't you agree?" She did and still does, the name sounded great to her! She added, “Mickie, born and raised in North Carolina, has the most beautiful, soft Southern drawl, a musical velvet-sounding tone of voice,” says the author-blogger. “We got along beautifully as house-mates; fifty-odd years later, we still giggle and chat weekly on the phone. Mickie lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, and I in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; however, we’re right next door.”
Judith’s husband and friends know her as Gail, her middle name. She uses her birth name, Judith Gail, and her married surname on official records to keep everything straight. For writing, she decided to simplify and use her first, maiden, and married surname Judith Kipp Norris. That way, her childhood and present friends will and should recognize her.
With a degree in Music Education, Gail taught over 500 students of all ages to play the piano in her Glendale, Arizona, home studio that she named “Mountainview Music” because, looking out of every window, she saw a gorgeous Arizona mountain that looked pink to her. A beautiful burled mahogany 6’ 10” antique (1907) parlor grand piano, refurbished reconditioned, and beautiful, stood in their living room that her students played for their music lessons. An adult student played very well but had a few rhythm challenges soon remedied, became a piano teacher herself through Judith’s mentoring. The two teachers became friends and performed a duet to close a joint recital for students of both studios.
The author usually has the final words, so take it away, Judigail...
“I loved living in Arizona, despite the 120-degree summers. The beautiful clear azure sky and lovely winter weather appealed to this western Pennsylvania-Appalachian Mountain born woman who only liked seeing snow falling. After that, people and cars got it all messed up, and the lovely white turned yucky-looking. I have enjoyed everywhere Auburn and I have lived; Arizona, Florida (Clearwater, Apollo Beach, Riverview, Ormond Beach.) However, it does get chilly in Florida, even in Miami. We lived in Minneapolis (b-r-r-r) for his job transfer and loved the incredible culture there. The cold did not suit either of us. (double b-r-r-r, b-r-r-r) That was where my writing first blossomed, I wrote for a retail concern that had offices located next to where we lived in La Rive Condominium, and co-wrote plus co-edited "Mississippi Mud," the condo newsletter. I interviewed the wife of the Ambassador from Norway, a radio personality, plus the shop owners at Riverplace. I saw a touring New York stage production of "Cats," and the fabulous Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. As much as we enjoyed the culture and people in that wonderful city, summer has always been my favorite season. Here in Puerto Rico, warm weather lasts the entire twelve months. Since my husband prefers warm weather like me, this lovely island paradise of Puerto Rico, we’ll call home for a while anyway.”
