I'm Too Young To Be Seventy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I'm Too Young To Be Seventy write by Judith Viorst. This book was released on 2007-11-01. I'm Too Young To Be Seventy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst’s funny, touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children. Viorst explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod with rueful recognition when she asks, “Am I required to think of myself as a basically shallow woman because I feel better when my hair looks good?,” when she presses a few helpful suggestions on her kids because “they may be middle aged, but they’re still my children,” and when she graciously—but not too graciously—selects her husband’s next mate in a poem deliciously subtitled “If I Should Die Before I Wake, Here’s the Wife You Next Should Take.” Though Viorst acknowledges she is definitely not a good sport about the fact that she is mortal, her poems are full of the pleasures of life right now, helping us come to terms with the passage of time, encouraging us to keep trying to fix the world, and inviting us to consider “drinking wine, making love, laughing hard, caring hard, and learning a new trick or two as part of our job description at seventy.” I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is a joy to read and makes a heartwarming gift for anyone who has reached or is soon to reach that—it’s not so bad after all—seventh decade.
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old
I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old write by Sourcebooks. This book was released on 2006-03. I'm Too Young to Be This Damn Old available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sick and tired of counting birthdays?
Forever Fifty
Forever Fifty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forever Fifty write by Judith Viorst. This book was released on 1996-09-03. Forever Fifty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author offers lyrical, compassionate, and witty observations about turning fifty years old and facing middle age
How Did I Get to Be 70 When I'm 35 Inside?
How Did I Get to Be 70 When I'm 35 Inside? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Did I Get to Be 70 When I'm 35 Inside? write by Linda Douty. This book was released on 2011. How Did I Get to Be 70 When I'm 35 Inside? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have the courage and curiosity to face the inner changes of aging--and learn how they can help you find meaning in your later years. "I used to think that age sixty-five was the start of a slippery downward slope to the cemetery. But inside, I felt a surge of enormous energy, with the potential to approach aging as an uncharted adventure instead of a prison sentence." --from the Introduction Unlike other authors, spiritual director Linda Douty discusses the challenges and surprises of aging by talking about how you actually feel, not what you're supposed to feel. In a warm, down-to-earth voice, she offers a spiritually grounded method to adjust to the unexpected as you grow older. There is no one-size-fits-all here, but a variety of responses to the inner and outer transformations of aging and new ways of looking at them. She looks at surprises, welcome and unwelcome, concerning: - Self-image - The physical body - Relationships - Spiritual life Questions for reflecting on who you are in this period of your life--or who you would like to be--will help you live each day more purposefully and joyfully.
Unexpectedly Eighty
Unexpectedly Eighty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unexpectedly Eighty write by Judith Viorst. This book was released on 2010-10-05. Unexpectedly Eighty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Judith Viorst returns with more poems in her “Decades” poetry series detailing the highs and lows of being an octogenarian. Continuing the comedic insight from I’m Too Young to be Seventy, these verses of memories and advice from eighty years of love, marriage, and grandchildren are sure to bring laughs. What does it mean to be eighty? In her wise and playful poems, Judith Viorst discusses love, friendship, grand parenthood, and all the particular marvels—and otherwise—of this extraordinary decade. She describes the wonder of seeing the world with new eyes—not because of revelation but because of a successful cataract operation. She promises not to gently fade away, and not to drive after daylight’s faded away either. She explains how she’s gotten to be a “three-desserts” grandmother (“Just don’t tell your mom!”), shares how memory failure can keep you married, and enumerates her hopes for the afterlife (which she doesn’t believe in, but if it does exist, her sister-in-law better not be there with her). As Viorst gleefully attests, eighty is not too old to dream, to flirt, to drink, and to dance. It’s also not too late to give up being cheap or to take up with a younger man of seventy-eight. Zesty, hopeful, and full of the pleasures of living, Viorst’s poems speak to her legions of readers, who recognize themselves in her knowing observations, in her touching reflections, and in her joyful affirmations. Funny, moving, inspirational, and true—the newest in Judith Viorst’s beloved “decades” series extols the virtues, victories, frustrations, and joys of life.
