Terry Marotta

Author, Speaker, Columnist

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In Terry’s fourth book, she book teaches people from age 10 to 110 how easy it is to spin up the kind of short first-person essay that anyone would want to hold onto forever. And because stories enter the heart most directly when they arrive through the ears, it comes with two CDs on which you will hear Terry's own voice, so precisely captured by Eagle Rock Studios that you ll think she is sitting beside you.

An audio-CD collection of 52 stories written and read on public radio by Terry Marotta, each one a brief celebrations of our lives. Because they go week by week through the year, she decided to name the audio book after her favorite season-celebrating hymn, “All Beautiful the March of Days,” with its vivid imagery about ‘the Hand that shaped the rose’ having also ‘wrought the crystal of the snow.’

Vacationing in My Driveway offers 52 sweet, true-life tales, one for each week of the year. The title comes from that moment when, exhausted after the day’s work, we pull up at last in your driveway, turn off the car and think “Maybe I’ll just sit here a minute.” Because it is then that we sense the great truth: We can’t set out to find the vacation-like moments in life. Instead, we must let these moments find us, as they will surely do if we can but recognize them when they arrive…

Most people in this country hurry too much. I know, because I have been one of them. For much of my adult life, I have broken dozens of glasses and plates each year while whipping them into and out of the dishwasher, thinking all the while ‘Get it done, get it done.’ And so, for these last few years, between the crashes and the shatterings - no one changes overnight - I have taken time out each week to sit down and write about whatever crosses my radar, whether it be joy or sorrow or the hemorrhaging of household appliances.”

Terry’s Blog

In her semi-regular web column “Exit Only”, Terry explores our complicated world with a unique and modern lens.