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Selah Author Betty Delight Maier

Saturday, February 14 2009, 12:00 - 14:00

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As Betty Delight Maier's mother became gravely ill, she sat with her at her bedside, Betty Maier

rekindling memories and telling stories of potluck dinners and holiday gatherings.
"We'd look out the window reminiscing," Maier says.
It was during those times with her mother and family that Maier realized how to finish her recently betty_maiers_book

published book, "For Mom & Sarah."
She said it all came together when talking to her family about everything that had happened over the years.
"I remember everything so vividly," she says.
At first it was a collection of short stories but Maier wanted it to be something more than that, something that told the story of her life and the people around her.
"I had such a memorable childhood, I wanted everyone that I grew up with to know how much I appreciate them," she says.
Maier now lives in the Wenas Valley but was born and raised in Yakima and the setting for her book takes place there, in the neighborhood of North 28th Avenue behind Castlevale School.
"The neighborhood people in that time were so close, back then everyone took care of each other," she says.
Maier began writing her book in 1991 and took the leap of publishing in November 2008. She has already written two other books that she plans on publishing, one is a collection of poetry and another is a cookbook with recipes from her mother, grandmother, great grandmother and other family members and friends. She also plans on following up this book with another that will continue from where it left off called, "For Mom & Sarah, Book 2, As Time Goes By," hopefully by the summer of 2009.

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