About Sherry
Sherry Kidd’s story doesn’t start in a hospital — well, technically it does. She was born in one. But that’s where the cliché ends. ✨
As a 70s kid, she was already hustling — selling worms, running a lemonade stand, and helping her dad sort barrels of cans, colored glass, and scrap metal for recycling. She grew up in a junkyard. Turns out, that’s not a bad place to learn the value of things other people overlook. 💪
At 15, she got her first tax-paying job washing dishes. At 16, she was behind a grocery store register. Then came marriage — and with a baby just a few months old, she was already back at work making donuts before sunrise. 🍩 She stayed home full-time for a few years after that, raising her kids, until it was time to go back out. She and her husband swapped roles — he stayed home, she went to work — and the jobs kept coming: restaurant back kitchen, food packaging, a nut factory, and her first stint as a CNA. She ran a newspaper route while raising five kids, driving rural roads in the dark and walking papers to city porches before most people had poured their first cup of coffee. She worked a gas station register. She stood watch as a correctional officer. None of it was glamorous. All of it was real. And every single job taught her something about people — how to read a room, how to stay calm when things get hard, how to treat someone with dignity even on their worst day.
In the years money was tightest, she did whatever it took — including collecting cans for cash and donating her own blood plasma to feed her kids. She doesn’t share that for sympathy; she shares it because it’s true, and because it’s exactly why she has no patience for making anything less than real and useful. She’ll tell you those years taught her more about resilience and human connection than any classroom ever could.
Eventually she came back to healthcare for good 🏥 — returning as a CNA, climbing to Registered Nurse, and keeping right on going until she was training the next generation as a professional medical educator. Her clinical home became hospice, home health, and skilled nursing — the kind of work that asks the most of a person’s patience and heart, and gives just as much back. These days, all five of those kids are grown, and she’s just as busy spoiling five grandchildren. ❤️
Somewhere along the way, three words became the thread running through everything she makes: See. Do. Be. 🌍💛 She sees a need, she does something about it, and she becomes the kind of person the world could use more of. It’s not a slogan she came up with for branding — it’s something she’s been saying, and living, for years, long before Good Life Goods had a name.
That same hands-on, no-nonsense grit shaped the tools she builds today — a simple everyday journal for anyone who just needs a place to write, a Nurse Journal with nursing quotes on every page, and a 365-Day Nurse Planner also filled with nursing quotes, written by someone who has actually lived the job. 📓✨ All three are available right here at Good Life Goods and on Amazon. Most recently, that caregiving instinct led her somewhere new: a brand-new line of memory care activity books for seniors, starting with her first large print word search and crossword puzzle book — designed with the same care she brings to her nursing work: large print, gentle pacing, and puzzles built to genuinely support memory and focus, not just pass the time. Available now on Amazon. 🧠📝
Good Life Goods opened as a Shopify store at the end of April — first just dropshipped products, to get something out into the world. It wasn’t long before Sherry wanted the shop to carry something that was actually hers. The moment she sat down with that idea, something clicked — within forty-five minutes, a teal robot with a magic wand and a mirror was born. 🤖✨ That was Goody, and what happened next can only be described as a creative firestorm: Books 1 and 2 of the Goody’s Good Life series were written in just three days — both available right here at Good Life Goods as storyboard books. A week later, storytelling pulled her in a second direction: she sat down and wrote Ziggy Makes the Block in a single day 🦎 — a picture book about a lizard who moves to a new neighborhood, runs into bullies, and learns to stand tall and speak up for himself without ever needing to be unkind back. The writing was the easy part. Formatting it for publishing? That took a whole week. 😂 Ziggy Makes the Block comes paired with a companion activity book — both available on Amazon — and more Maple Block titles are on the way, including reading comprehension, social-emotional learning, and math for early readers.
From the factory floor to the front lines of care, Sherry writes to empower and inspire. 🌍💛 Every product carries the same closing line, because it’s the truest thing she knows how to say:
Changing the world · one thought · one hand · one heart · one smile · at a time. 🌍💛✨
