Terry Marotta: Vacationing in One's Driveway, June 6, 2007
Wednesday, June 6, 2007, 7:30 p.m., Community Room
Needham Free Public Library, 1139 Highland Avenue, Needham, MA
Free and open to the public
Refreshments
Sponsored by the Friends of the Needham Public Library
Kick off your summer with syndicated columnist Terry Marotta, author of Vacationing in My Driveway, who will offer her humorous and uplifting views on life with a focus on summer themes at the Friends of the Needham Public Library’s annual meeting on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Library’s Community Room. The event is free and open to the public.
The four-time author and public radio commentator will describe the rewards that come from living at maximum awareness; give examples of the wisdom she has encountered, chronicling her 26 years of professional people-watching; and offer tips for staying awake to the beauty and meaning hidden in even the most seemingly routine day. All four of Marotta’s books will be available for sale and signing.
“We are delighted to offer a very special evening with Terry Marotta,” said Doug Olsen, president, Friends of the Needham Public Library. “Terry believes in the transformative powers of love, in eavesdropping with the intention of catching people at their best, and in tapping into the great font of collective wisdom that resides in the common people.”
About Terry Marotta
For more than a quarter of a century, Massachusetts native Terry Marotta has been producing a weekly syndicated column that appears in papers nationwide. Marotta’s work has also been published in Parents Magazine, Woman’s Day, The Christian Science Monitor, Reader’s Digest, and Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul. She was designated a Distinguished Alumna by Smith College and was selected from a field of thousands as one of 40 finalists in the still-stalled NASA-sponsored initiative to send a journalist into space.
In addition to a soon-to-be-released book on journaling, she has published two collections of reader-favorite columns: I Thought He Was a Speed Bump and Vacationing in My Driveway. She has also edited and written the introduction for The Mountains I Raise, an anthology of short pieces by ten of her students from a three-year writing course at a Boston-area Senior Center.
Educated at Notre Dame Academy in Roxbury and the Lowell pubic schools, she went on to graduate magna cum laude from Smith College. She then began a seven-year teaching stint at Somerville High School near Boston, where she was inspired by the dreams, hopes, and intelligent questions of her students and resolved to remain involved with young people always. She still functions as a church youth group leader, surrogate mom to four alumni scholars from the National Program for a Better Chance, and someone who is happy to help anyone struggling to turn out a decent paper.
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