As a child, Grace Grogan loved reading, history, and writing. She would write stories and read them to her mother. As an adult, those interests expanded to include genealogy, photography, and travel. She currently lives and travels full-time in a motorhome, working remotely part-time as a freelance writer. Grace and her partner, Paul, have a YouTube channel, Rolling Thru North America Travel With US! about their travel and off-road adventures. Grace sells her photography on Fine Art America and Pixels.
When her children were young, Grace started a newsletter, Grogan Gossip, mailing it to friends and family. That eventually became a 4–8-page Christmas newsletter incorporating writing and photographs. A copy of every Grogan Gossip is preserved in a notebook that serves as a “genealogy” of hers, her deceased husband’s, and her children’s lives.
Grace was a member of the St. Clair County Family History Group from 2004 to 2018, serving as Vice President and Editor of the club’s newsletter, Blue Water Family Backgrounds. She also published regularly as a community opinion columnist for the Port Huron Times Herald from 2014 to 2018.
When her children were young, Grace completed a course with the Institute of Children’s Literature on writing magazine articles for children. In 2010 she went back to college, earning an Associate Degree in Business with a major in paralegal. She worked as a paralegal from 2011 to 2019, then sold her home, left her job, and began living full-time in a motorhome, traveling Canada and the U.S.
Grace began writing the Who Am I? genealogy column for The Lakeshore Guardian in 2013. She has articles and photographs published in the Freshwater Reporter, Family RVing, and Photo Traveler (publication of the Photographic Society of America) and ghostwrites blogs for businesses worldwide. Grace has a personal blog on WordPress, is a Member of Detroit Working Writers and the Rochester Writers Freelance Writing Group.