About the Author

Mary Snedden woke to the need for a gathering place for life's critical information when her husband John suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. As John lay between life and death in a hospital, she scramble to find the insurance policies, telephone numbers, keys, computer passwords and legal information she would need if John were to die - and realized that, in many cases, she had no clue where these and other important documents and items were stored. Happily, John recovered, but Mary was motivated to put together Life's Stuff, a workbook designed to help anyone facing a life transition as complex as the death of a spouse or parent or as simple as applying for a passport or sending a kid to camp. Mary's experience with John's emergency, her care for her aging parents and hundreds of hours of research and careful thought result in a practical and clear route through what might seem a daunting task: organizing all of Life's Stuff.