Page 1 of Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother

March 14, 2022 by Jennifer Colegrove Ph.D. founder, Touch Display Research Inc.

Below is page 1 of my: “Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother”.

When my older daughter was about six years old, she wanted to know what I did for a living, so that she could have an answer when people asked her.

My husband gave her a quick answer: “Just say your mommy is a doctor.”

My daughter opened her eyes wide and turned to me. “Really? Mommy, do you help sick people?”

I tried to explain, “No, I’m not that kind of doctor. I’m the kind of doctor which is also called a Doctor of Philosophy. I write industry reports about displays, touch screens, something like that.”

She nodded.

The next day I heard my six-year-old telling her three-year-old little sister, “Mommy is a doctor who doesn’t help people!”

I just laughed.

This book is a memoir of my family and over fifty years of my life and working experiences. Grow up in a poor village in China, I studied at Peking University (also called Beijing University) in Beijing.

Figure. A Memoir: Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed, From a Chinese Girl to American Working Mother

Source: Touch Display Research Inc., March 2022

Later I came to America for my Ph.D. education with a scholarship, and married my English teacher. I completed my Ph.D. in Ohio, and found a job in Silicon Valley California. There I worked from engineer to vice president, during this time my husband and I raised two daughters. I founded my own company. We moved to Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Based on the brief description of my journey, you might say my life sounded smooth and even successful. However, when you look into the details, my life was actually full of struggles, with a few lucky moments, just like a few vivid red plum flowers blooming on a black branch of a plum tree in the snowing winter.

Many of the stories I only shared with my family and a few close friends. When I was reading my diaries from many years ago and writing down the experiences I went through, putting myself back into the scenes, it was like opening the wounds that have formed scars, and the wounds started to bleed again. I felt terrified and with emotional pain again.

How did I survive the struggles, poverty, and discrimination to get to where I am today? It’s not my capability, but many people’s help and God’s mercy to me. How I survived bullies when I was young, and how I helped a friend to escape from bully. There are also stories of how I recovered from self-doubt, international and interracial marriage, Asian women suffering in America, how I sued my ex-employer after they laid me off when I was pregnant, how I escaped my ex-employer’s lawyer and established my own company. If you like real estate, I also wrote about how we bought a house in Austin, Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you like humor, this book has a chapter of “Kids say the funniest things”.

I want to leave a legacy, to China and America, both countries that raised me and provided education and so many opportunities to me. 

Many miracles happened in my life, I don’t want to hide them. I want to tell the story how I found Jesus and share the praise-worthy deeds of God, and the wonders he has done.

My mom once said I was foolishly brave, and unconditionally blessed. I’m foolishly brave once again to write and share these stories, with genuine hope that what I went through can help you somewhere, sometime, and in some way.

Happiness has two different types: one type is happiness “when”, another type is happiness “always”. Happiness “always” is the true happiness. Happiness “always” is a joy state within your heart, therefore it is also called joy. I finally have found joy.

My dear friend, I can show you how.

Jennifer Colegrove, Ph.D.

 (to be continued, or you can purchase and read the book now.)

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Praises of Foolishly Brave Unconditionally Blessed

“It is a good book. Hard to put down. Jerry “

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About Touch Display Research Inc.

Touch Display Research, Inc. (https://TouchDisplayResearch.com) is a technology market research and consulting firm specializing in touch screen and emerging display technologies such as OLED displays, quantum dots, flexible displays, e-paper displays, ITO-replacement, Active pen, near-eye displays, smart windows, micro & mini LED, gesture controls, voice controls, eye controls and Batteries. Touch Display Research helps technology companies grow and connecting their technologies to the marketplace. We have been writing about OLED industry for over 10 years. We were the first company to publish Quantum Dot market reports. We were the first company to publish Active Pen market report, and ITO-replacement market report.  We have always been there to analyze new and emerging technologies. Touch Display Research provides reports, consulting, and due diligence to touch suppliers, display manufacturers, semiconductor companies, consumer electronics ODMs/OEMs, material suppliers, investors and venture capitalists. Battery Market Research is a subsidiary division of Touch Display Research, and focuses on battery technologies and market. For report and consulting, please visit our website: TouchDisplayResearch.com. 

About the Author

Dr. Jennifer K. Colegrove is the founder and CEO of Touch Display Research Inc. (www.TouchDisplayResearch.com), a market research and consulting firm that focuses on touch screen, display, sensor, battery and emerging technologies.

Dr. Colegrove has over twenty years of industry experience.  She holds many analyst “firsts”: She was the first analyst to write a comprehensive touch screen industry report since 2006 (therefore, she is called “Doctor Touch” by her colleagues); she was the first analyst to write an active pen industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write an ITO-replacement industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a quantum dot industry report since 2013; she was the first analyst to write a touchless HMI industry report since 2014.

She has authored over one hundred market forecast reports and over one hundred published articles. She is frequently quoted by media and industry press including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, and Bloomberg. Dr. Colegrove has been a featured speaker and session chairperson at over one hundred worldwide conferences. Dr. Colegrove has advised over two hundred companies through her standard reports or consulting projects in recent years.

She has five patent applications with one U.S. patent granted.

Dr. Colegrove has a Ph.D. from the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in Ohio. She received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with honors from Peking University in Beijing, China. To learn more about Dr. Jennifer Colegrove and her work, you can visit the website: www.TouchDisplayResearch.com  or JenniferColegrove.com