Still Following the Trail of Breadcrumbs to Journal Yoru Way Back Home

Marotta, Terry

ISBN 10: 0963860348 ISBN 13: 9780963860347

Publisher: Ravenscroft Pr, 2007

Synopsis

This multi-media work demonstrates how easy it is for people to compose the short, first-person remembrance, Because stories enter the heart most directly when they arrive through the ears, it is chiefly an audio book Between every chapter a fresh musical interlude helps people begin traveling down their own long-forgotten paths into the realm of memory, where, all we have ever seen still remains resting in the deep pool of experience and waiting only for the waters to quiet enough for us to see them.

About this title

About the Author:

For more than a quarter of a century, Massachusetts-based author Terry Marotta has been producing a weekly column that today appears in papers all over the country.Her preparation for this great life began at a convent school in the Roxbury area of Boston, then continued 20 miles to the north in the Lowell pubic schools. Immediately after graduating from Smith College 100 miles to the west she came back to the salt air to begin a seven-year stint as a high school teacher in the city of Somerville where she was so affected by the clear-eyed candor of the teens she interacted with she decided then and there to remain involved with young people forever. Accordingly she still functions as Youth Group leader in her church, surrogate mom to four Alumni Scholars from the National Program for a Better Chance, and someone who is happy to help anyone, anyone at all who is struggling to turn out a decent paper.In the 1986 peer-judged, NASA-sponsored Journalist in Space initiative she was chosen as one of 40 Finalists from a pool of thousands and though Challenger’s tragic loss caused that competition to be suspended, she still sees considers herself to be “in training” for the job. Her helmet is packed.Besides looking forward to the January ‘08 release of her latest effort, a multi-media book that teaches people how-to journal, she has also written pieces for many nationally known publications, has a chapter in the book Chicken Soup for the Mother’s Soul and through Ravenscroft Press has helped give the world two collections of reader-favorite columns, I Thought He Was a Speed Bump and Vacationing in My Driveway; and also The Mountains I Raise, an anthology of short pieces by ten dedicated individuals who did a three-year writing course with her at an area Senior Center. She does regular commentaries for Public Radio, and has had the honor of being named both one of the Girls Scouts’ Leading Women and one of Smith College’s Alumnae in Residence, in both cases greatly enjoying the time spent with people close in age to those long-ago high school kids who first taught her what it meant to have a calling in life.She and her husband David live just north of Boston where they enjoy frequent drop-ins from their many children. She 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.

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 this edition

• Publisher: Ravenscroft Pr
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0963860348
• ISBN 13: 9780963860347
• Binding: Audio CD