Synopsis
Terry Marotta believes that all people can - and maybe even should - write down what they see and think and feel, whether they are 8 or 80.Why? Because when we do this two things happen: One, we have a wonderful visit with ourselves; and Two, we leave a record of what it was like to be here.Not only will our children and grandchildren appreciate our having left this journal, writing it will also turn out to have been a very good way to give regular thanks for the life we have been given. When we keep a record like this we are in effect saying "Thank you, God! I loved being here! It was such fun and there were so many great kinds of plants and animals to look at! And as to my own life, what drama! What suspense!" In this three-CD audio book and its accompanying 100-page printed manual are hundreds of funny and poignant moments related by the author, all guaranteed to help people start trusting their own "voice" and in using it, to come better to see and understand their own path in this world.
About the Author
After graduating magna cum laude from Smith College, Terry began adult life as a high school teacher just outside Boston in the bustling city of Somerville MA, where for the first time in her life she put aside the grim seriousness of the academy and woke up to the joy hidden and waiting in each day. In the seven years she taught there she was so changed by her contact with the dreams and intelligent questions of the adolescents she worked with that she decided to stay involved with young people forever. She has tutored and been surrogate mom to four ABC guys, (young men in the National Program for A Better Chance), still spends the odd Sunday night with the kids in her church youth group and will gladly help anybody at all who is struggling to produce a decent paper for English class.She is the author of two books, I Thought He Was a Speed Bump, and Other Excuses From Life in the Fast Lane (1994) and Vacationing In My Driveway, (2002.) The weekly column she has been producing since 1980 appears in newspapers from Maine to Michigan, giving her the chance to stick up for love and sex and the planet 52 weeks a year. She does speaking engagements too, as well as commentaries for several of Public Radio's local affiliates. Her pieces have appeared in a number of the large women's magazines as well as in Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul. But the best job she has ever had, she says, is the one she assigned herself when, together with her husband David, she established the household that became a sort of youth-hostel/community center for as few as three or as many as nine of their children, both homegrown and honorary - as well as a couple of cats and several peacefully co-existing colonies of mouse-life.Because in the last couple of years she has begun working part-time as a massage therapist too, she is now also brought into an intimate awareness of the human spirit and its connection to the valiant faithful body that houses it.Finally, she made it all the way to the finals in the still-stalled initiative to send a journalist up into space. The contest was put on hold in 1986 in the months following the Challenger disaster but, as she puts it, she still has her helmet packed.
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