From the Inside Flap:
John Updike once told her she wrote like a dream. Her fans laugh cry reading her in the paper each week. Now, with the warm stories in this new multi-media work, author and award-winning columnist Terry Marotta shows people of all ages how to journal, as she first leads them through some of her own stories, then hands them the “pen” in the form of dozens of concrete tips and starter phrases. This book is designed to be listened to as well as read because we all know it: stories that come in through the ear travel direct to the heart. “This happened to me,” one person says, laying a hand upon our arm. “And this happened to me,” his listener instinctively responds. A deep sense of peace settles upon us when we reach this moment, along with the sure belief that of course we can set down on paper what is real for us. Of course we can journal, because to journal is only to say what we saw, or heard or felt in our time here. We are all given a unique and true voice; this book simply shows us how to use it.Some very early reaction: “She writes with such grace, understanding and humor. If E.B. White were alive, he’d have reason to worry.” - Jerry Zezima, commentator for American Public Media's “Marketplace” and columnist for The Stamford Advocate and the L.A Times-Washington Post News Service “A very therapeutic work, in that it facilitates a wide range of emotions that don't easily surface for people. Terry’s voice is calming in itself, and leads one forward in one’s own feelings, describing place and family as nothing else can.” - R. Marino, Marino, Family Therapist “You can just relax and appreciated her deft and delicate touch with language, or try writing yourself with her gentle, supportive voice showing the way. It's all here, each little essay a brief meditation on the beauty of the world and the human heart.” Carol Weir, educator and reading specialist From the author of those two funny and poignant collections Vacationing in My Driveway and I Thought He Was a Speed Bump
About the Author:
It was 1980 when Terry Marotta began producing the weekly lifestyle column that today appears in papers from Maine to Florida. Over the years she has written special pieces for many national magazines and won her share of awards and honors too: from Parents Magazine, from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and from her peers in the NASA-sponsored competition to send a journalist up in the Shuttle. Ravenscroft Press has given the world several of Terry s works and is delighted that this December will see the release of her latest: an audio book which comes with a 142-page transcript of everything she says on the CDs. Still Following the Trail of Breadcrumbs teaches people how to begin the journaling habit and is designed to be listened to as well as read because stories that come in through the ear travel direct to the heart. As Terry explains it, This happened to me one person says, laying a hand upon our arm. And this happened to me, his listener instinctively responds. And when two people reach this moment a sense of deep peace flows into both hearts, along with the belief that of course a person can set down on paper what is real for him; of course she can journal, because to journal is only to say what one saw, or heard or felt in ones time here. We are all given a unique and true voice at birth, says Terry; this book simply shows people how to use it. Besides writing and tending to her family Terry says she toils away at a cardio-health and weight-training regimen, helps all who ask with their essays and compositions and finds herself absolutely thrilled to have been recently voted into the Old Cambridge Shakespeare Association, which has been meeting monthly since the 1880s for dramatic readings of the Bard s many plays. She lives just north of Boston with her husband David and several sweet elderly animals in the same tall-ceilinged old ship of a house where they raised a lively gang of young people, all grown and gone now, leaving behind only three closets full of raggedy flannel shirts, a few cherished never-throw-these-out-Mom posters, and a truly uncountable number of semi-damaged CDs and cassette tapes.
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