Pat Ferguson Hanson lives in Stillwater, Minnesota and teaches communications at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She is married to artist-educator Jim Hanson,
with whom sh...view morePat Ferguson Hanson lives in Stillwater, Minnesota and teaches communications at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. She is married to artist-educator Jim Hanson,
with whom she has three teenage daughters. Pat claims Minneapolis as her hometown. She began her career as a journalist and spent over ten years as a member of the U.S. Foreign Service. While in the diplomatic corps, Pat served as Assistant Cultural Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Greece. Tommy and Me is Pat's second memoir. Her first, The Five Goodbyes, Mothering My Child With Down Syndrome, was published in 2003.view less