Doing Eighty

Lucille Lovestedt shares her wit, charm, and wisdom in this collection of essays dealing with the subject of life, aging, and other aggravations, as well as some unexpected delights.

Lucille Lovestedt is a retired speech pathologist. During her tenure at Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center, she was co-author of a professional paper and author of a workbook for aphasic patients, Reclaiming Functional Communication, Thomas Publishing Co. Since her retirement to Grass Valley, California, she has been active in a writing group. Her short essays and articles have appeared in the Grass Valley Union newspaper, the Sacramento Bee and Bark magazine. One of her essays was selected for inclusion in the anthology Open to All, published by the Nevada County Library Association. She also won an honorable mention for a poem entered in one of the annual Writers Digest writing contests. She is also the author of an autobiographical novel, Commission of Child and Animal Protection.