Carolyn Bassett is enjoying the new opportunities that have come in her later years, including the writing of her first book. Carolyn worked in Catholic hospital chaplaincy programs for ten years, and she continues to serve in various leadership and pastoral capacitiesas a member of the ecumenical community the People of Praise. She and her husband, Frank, have been married for fifty-two years and have two children, eleven grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. They live in Northern Virginia.