From grief to grounded: Jess Kimball’s journey writing 'She Can Hold Her Own'

From grief to grounded: Jess Kimball’s journey writing 'She Can Hold Her Own'

LAUREL SPRINGS — Jess Kimball didn’t expect writing a book to have such a profound spiritual impact on herself, as she forged lasting relationships with interviewees while working through grief and balancing the hearty demands of homesteading in the mountains.