Winding Roads: A New England Notebook of Wisdom and Wit Powers, Helen

At last! A book for the bedside table, a treat to look forward to at the end of the day. "Winding Roads" by Helen Powers is the cream of a ten-year crop of newspaper columns, originally appearing in the "Citizen News" in New Fairfield Connecticut, as a relaxing escape from today's stressful living. Helen Powers' light-hearted humor is expressed in the day-to-day situations that confront women of all ages. Her entertaining subjects include "The Queen Elizabeth Cure," "Sixty and Single," "What to Do With the Empty Nest," and "The Ultimate Revenge." Most of all, however, Ms Powers writes about "home" with a heart-warming enthusiasm. This is a book of values and laughter as lasting as time itself. It is a redeeming quality on the American scene, a relaxing interlude that draws on the past to establish the framework for a fulfilling future.

Helen Powers is an award-winning author, playwright, theater critic, press agent, newspaper columnist, and free-lance writer. Besides her books and plays which were performed or published in New York, her free-lance credits include Encyclopedia Americana, the New York Times, Reader's Digest, and newspapers across the country.

For seven years the author was press repressentative for Candlewood Theater in Connecticut working with super stars such as Marlene Dietrich, Jack Benny, Ginger Rogers, Lily Tomlin, Jerry Lewis, Jerry Vale and Guy Lombardo. She then took her own act on the road, bringing laughter to women's clubs throughout the East for eighteen years with her lecture "How to Live Like a Super Star."

Ms Powers is the widow of a patent attorney with two grown sons, two grandchildren, a dog named Phoebe and a cat named Buck. Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in St. Louis, she has lived in Connecticut for the past thirty years.