Jessica was the QoDmother for nearly a decade; thus, she was single-handedly responsible for the answers to, perhaps, a couple thousand Questions of the Day. And to those answers, add updates, personal correspondence, a large stable of contributors, and a voluminous list of expert contacts and you get some idea of the adroit juggling act she managed to pull off all those years.
And QoD was just one of numerous responsibilities she shouldered as web content manager for Huntington Press. It’s impossible to overstate the gaping hole her departure has left in the publishing company (not to mention how many juggling balls are now scattered all over the floor).
Of course, nothing is permanent except change (or as a wise woman once said, "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations") and Jessica was called back to Jolly Olde England to care for ailing parents. She’s still working with Huntington Press, but in a much more behind-the-scenes capacity from a distance.
Due to her departure (and the results of the recent reader poll about QoD), we’re reevaluating this feature, seriously considering opening up the closely guarded Archives, contingent on securing an advertising sponsor, on which we’re working.
The deft touch of Jessica, one of the funniest, savviest, most eloquent and elegant women we male QoDers have ever had the pleasure to know and work with, will certainly be missed for a long long time. We hope we can live up to the grand legacy she’s leaving behind.
