Janice Monahan Rodgers

Welcome to my website!

Last June I published my first book of short stories entitled Letters To My Sister.  It is a recollection of my family’s life and memories of growing up in Allentown, Pennsylvania during the late 1940’s and ‘50’s.

Filled with a soft and gentle humor, my stories of a boisterous Irish/Slovak Catholic family are at times funny, wistful and always sentimental.

Volume two, Letters To My Sister: Chew Street and Beyond, continues with family vacations, our adventures in our Chew Street neighborhood and our big move to the suburbs of Allentown.

By this time, Allentown was a bustling, thriving third class city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its population of over 106,000 was becoming quite diverse.

New technologies were driving major changes, but we still shopped ‘uptown’ and rode trolley cars.  Supermarkets were a ‘new’ concept and not everyone on our block had a television set.

I hope these books will entertain you, dear reader. And perhaps it will trigger your own fond memories.

Both books are now available on Amazon in paperback and e-book formats.