
Thirty-Six Years Later. . . is the sequel to Martha Curtis' first book, Bits and
Pieces, when as a young house-wife and mother of three, she hit upon a
project to chronicle a year in her family's life. The year was 1970.
In 2006, Double Edge Press asked her to do a follow-up in the same auto-
biographical journal style. She was now Martha Dougherty, had grand-
children, and her children were now middle-aged and facing many of the
same challenges she herself went through. What words of wisdom would
she have to share with them and a whole new generation?
Many of the elements that made her original book
a classic read are still evident: the optimism, the
simplicity, her faith in God to get her through. Her
day to day schedule is surprisingly even more
active than her first very busy writing nearly four
decades earlier.
What does a 'retired' woman in her seventies do?
Find out as you fly with Martha to Vegas and
Maine, take road-trips through neighboring states,
show in art festivals and run a photography
business and an internet site for her work. In
between this she somehow finds time to run a
household, entertain, go to church, attend
weddings and, sadly, funerals, all while being a
wife, a mother, a grandmother, and becoming a
great-grandmother.
Join her on an entertaining and thoughtful journey that reminds us all of
the importance of pursuing hopes and dreams no matter what your age.


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