Jenny Gardiner is the author of the novel "Sleeping with Ward Cleaver". Her writing has appeared in "Ladies Home Journal", the "Washington Post", and NPR's "Day to Day", and she has a column of humorous slice-of-life essays that runs in the Charlottesville, VA "Daily Progress". Jenny lives in central Virginia with her husband, three kids, two dogs, one cat, and, of course, a gregarious parrot.