Judy, Betsy, and Maxine present "Gotta Wait? Gotta Read!"

82 Central Street,Wellesley MA 02482

26 April, 2023

Description

If you would prefer to RSVP by phone, you may call Wellesley Books at 781-431-1160. Books will be available for purchase at the event. Please note that you must purchase your copy of the book from Wellesley Books in order to have the author sign it at the event. ABOUT THE BOOK We three friends, who love to write stories, came together in a writing class at Bolli (Brandeis Osher Life Long Learning Institute). Most of the stories in our book came out of that class. We are all past our 80th birthdays and realize we have no time to waste, but sometimes find ourselves unfortunately doing just that! We are especially frustrated when we place a call and are told… "your call is important to us…please wait for the next available agent…" We feel like tearing our hair (but we have little to spare) or gnashing our teeth (but our teeth are too fragile). So, during the pandemic while we waited for normal life to restart, we put together a collection of very short stories to entertain our readers when they are made to wait. We suggest keeping our book by a phone for the times when you are forced to put life on hold. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Judy Blatt Judy Blatt is a retired school teacher. She raised her family in Sudbury and taught at Haynes School in the same town. Judy used theater as a teaching tool for her third grade classes and wrote numerous plays with multiple parts over the years. When Judy’s teaching career ended she put her creative energy into writing and enrolled in classes at BOLLI. She started a writing group and the group still meets once a month to share their original stories and poems. Betsy Campbell Betsy Campbell is a native New Englander currently living in Natick. She started writing stories at an early age hunting and pecking out the words on her father’s old underwood. Writing has always been her avocation, although teaching became her day job. Over the years, she has taught writing to first graders, teenagers and senior citizens—always encouraging her students to let their imaginations go. Betsy has published her work in The Boston Globe, The Vineyard Gazette, Storyteller Magazine, South Road Literary Journal and in Final Fenway Fiction, a collection of baseball stories. Maxine Weintraub Maxine Weintraub, a Wellesley resident from 1964 to 1993, has been telling and writing stories for almost forever. She has been published in The Goose River Anthology, edited the Bolli Journal (anthology Brandeis Adult Education program), and written and published two cookbooks and three children's books. She is currently working on an expansion of a short story collection based on her fifteen years living in Kennebunkport, Maine and was published often in the York County Coast Star.