'BOOB Girls' author to visit Monticello library

     The Monticello Public Library is hosting author and motivational speaker Joy Johnson on Monday, April 24 at 6:30 p.m.

     This event is free and open to the public.

     Johnson is the author of a series of eight, and counting, books titled “The BOOB Girls: the Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12.” Her books are said to be part comedy, part mystery for seasoned women.

     The laugh-out-loud novels feature four retired widows in a retirement community in Omaha, Neb. The women include a retired rancher, a retired socialite, a retired professor, and a retired homicide detective. The books show readers that life after retirement and laughter can be found, even in widowhood.

     The retired women come together daily at the Meadow Lakes Retirement Community and sit at table 12.

     “I have a soapbox in the books,” said Johnson. “I think older women, the seasoned Nancy Drew in our lives, are beautiful and not just spiritually or emotionally, but physically. Just look at us. Our faces are chiseled by tears and laughter. Our hair is blown thin and white by winds of experience and there is so much knowledge and wisdom in our heads they can’t hold it all, so it trickles down through the rest of our bodies, and that’s why we get thicker as we age.”

     The author, humorist and international speaker had one wish for her audience: “to laugh so hard tears run down your leg.”

     Johnson is a native Iowan from the Creston area. She and her husband founded two non-profits: the Centering Corporation and the Ted E. Bear Hollow center. Both assist people in their time of grief.

     Johnson will entertain the crowd at the Monticello library and share her books.