Mary Rivers retired to beautiful Point Clear Ala on Mobile Bay.  A lifelong Catholic she graduated from UNC, Chapel Hill.  She was one of the first, if not the first, Catholic hired in Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system.  She was a reading specialist and doing graduate studies until she married her husband, Jim.  Together they have one child and three grandchildren.  She is involved in social justice programs and writes a Catholic blog.

Her blog: http://thewomanatthewellbymaryrivers.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html