At the tender age of eleven, Elaine Colton moved to Newport, Rhode Island, to live with her Navy civilian engineer father. Life had already been difficult for Elaine, having lost her mother at an early age; she desperately needed a friend to stand by her side. Instead, she got not one, but "fifteen" friends who supported her from childhood through adulthood for the next fifty years. Warm, witty, and full of love, "The Newport Girls" chronicles Colton's extraordinary lifelong relationship with her closest girlfriends. Beginning in 1952, Colton relates meeting Leenie Callahan, a girl who lived...

Author Elaine Colton has jam packed her seventy-five years of life with awesome experiences--from the bold to the hilarious and from the daring to the wow. In What More Is There to Say?, she chronicles more than fifty years of stories, both personal and professional, including reinventing herself as an author at the age of sixty-eight.

From her teenage years to her seventies, this collection shares events and anecdotes that discuss what it takes to have a good life, what it takes to go where no woman has dared to go, what it takes to be brave enough to surrender to love at middle...