Jennifer Bower

We’ve published a bunch of Cardie Newsletter stories featuring Jennifer, always fondly referred to by our company founder as, “clever niece Jennifer.” Here is one of Jodee’s favorites:  

“In the last days of my mother’s life, my clever niece Jennifer traveled 1,200 miles to say her goodbyes to her Granny. As everyone who has faced those bittersweet moments knows, we shared the whole range of emotions in Mom’s ICU room that day and — when visiting hours ended and we headed for home — we left spent. We were not at all prepared to walk into my apartment and find three inches of water wall-to-wall.

“The entire kitchen ceiling had crashed to the floor and water was still gushing from what we later learned was a tankless water heater mishap in the apartment above. Jennifer and I had been gone 12 hours at least, and the upstairs neighbor was vacationing in Thailand, so there was no way of knowing how long the mess had been in the making, but it was bad.

“In damage-control mode, I left Jennifer, quick ran and turned the water off in our little building, called a plumber and dug out the key the neighbor had left me. Minutes later I was back surveying the damage, feeling at my wit’s end — where to begin?! I grabbed a broom and bucket to start moving the water into the courtyard when Jennifer walked in wearing her swim cap and goggles. Pointing to the mound of debris that used to be my kitchen, she said, ‘I think your housekeeper might have missed a spot!’ We burst out laughing, she picked up a pail, pumped a fist and called us to action with, ‘Let’s bail!’

“Oh, we laughed and laughed — to this day, we laugh at the memory — and it felt so good to have her there to break the tension, share my sadness and then dismay, and joyfully pitch in as if it were just another day.”

Here are links to two great Jennifer stories: Data, Data Data and Bright Spots.

She and her husband Erik are huge Columbus Bluejackets hockey and OSU (The Ohio State University) football fans, so naturals to collaborate on the popular hockey and football designs below.

Cards with Messages by Jennifer