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Becoming a Mystery Writer at Age 74

2 Books About the Late 20th Century and the Baby Boomer Generation




Late Boomer

A Baby Boomer&rsquo;s Take on Late-Twentieth-Century Life

So, what does ravioli have to do with the Bowery Boys. .&nbsp; soap operas with Watergate. 
50 Favs of the &rsquo;60s&nbsp;&rsquo;70s&nbsp;&rsquo;80s

The author, a late-stage baby boomer, presents a look back at fifty of the essential subjects from each of the exciting and uncanny decades of change: the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s . Along these lines, I recall 36&cent; per gallon gasoline (for &ldquo;high-test&rdquo;, later to be called &ldquo;premium&rdquo;); a $1.50 six-pack of beer; a large bag of cheese curls for 39&cent;; and a can of soda (including Wink, a defunct grapefruit-flavored beverage from Canada Dry) for ten cents.

5 Must-Read Books for Caregivers: Empowerment Through Knowledge


Whether you&#39;re caring for a loved one with a chronic illness, aging parents, or individuals with special needs, finding solace and guidance in the midst of your responsibilities is crucial. Thankfully, literature offers a wealth of wisdom and support for caregivers, providing insights, strategies, and empathy. Here are five invaluable books that every caregiver should consider adding to their reading list:


	&quot;The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease, Related Dementias, and Memory Loss&quot; by Nancy L. &quot;Being Mortal&quot; challenges traditional approaches to healthcare and encourages caregivers to prioritize quality of life and individual preferences in their caregiving journey.

What I Would Miss if I Left Italy


An Excerpt from Now &amp; Then: A Collection of Recipes for Always by Tessa Kiros



My first time in Italy &ndash; not counting that ridiculous trip with my sister Ludi from Greece by boat via Brindisi, a quick stop in Rome for a slice of marinara pizza (probably still my favourite pizza) and then on to Spain with our Eurail passes &ndash; my first proper time in Italy was with Calli in my early twenties. 
We rode bicycles around the small town, admiring the buildings and their beautiful colours &ndash; the greens, mustards, ochres and golds &ndash; and the stylish, well-rounded and exquisite beauty. And I remember thinking how Italy showed me to love pink and yellow together. 
The first meal I had at Calli&rsquo;s Aunt Loretta&rsquo;s is one I will never forget.

Summer Escapes: Timeless Books with a Summer Theme


Captivating Summer Escapes: Timeless Books with a Summer Theme for Older Adults


Summer is a season of warmth, relaxation, and leisure. It&#39;s a time when the days stretch long, inviting us to indulge in captivating stories that evoke the spirit of the season. For baby boomers seeking literary companionship that celebrates the joys and nuances of summer, this curated list of timeless books with a summer theme is tailor-made to transport you to sun-drenched shores, idyllic vacations, and moments of self-discovery. 

	
	&quot;The Great Gatsby&quot; by F.

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How We Pursue Happiness in Different Ways


This excerpt is from Money Isn&rsquo;t Everything, Everything is Money By Tom&nbsp;Shepard

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Up to a point, Money can buy happiness, but happiness isn&rsquo;t that easy to quantify. Would you be at all surprised if I told you that there are seven ways to be happy and one that really resonates with you. So, when happiness was raised as a topic recently, I was intrigued enough to fly down to Costa Rica to UPEACE to attend a conference on global happiness.

Writing Sex Scenes For Boomers


There are two in my novel, The Girl From Long Guyland, and two in the sequel, Bagels &amp; Salsa. &ldquo;I rather close the bedroom door,&rdquo; my talented author friend John Asher used to say. Protagonist Laila Levin, a seventeen-year-old virgin from the suburbs of Long Island is having an encounter with Chris Reynolds, a local hipster in the impoverished factory town where she is attending college. 
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Chris grabbed my hand.

New Children’s Book Hits the Shelf With All Five-Star Reviews


New Childrenâs Book Hits the Shelf With All Five-star Reviews


Walker&rsquo;s first children&rsquo;s book, The Adventures of Tony Balony and Cookie, is the story of a now grown adult by the name of Tony Walker, who as a child really did have a lot of fun growing up in the 1960s with his family and his dog named Cookie. 
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Tony Gets A Dog

When Tony Balony was very little

He loved watching TV while eating peanut brittle

His favorite show to watch was about a dog named rookie,

Which is why Tony Balony asked Ma Jo if he could get a dog and name him Cookie;

At first, Ma Jo said absolutely not,&nbsp;

Until Tony promised to take care of him, to which PaPa Dick responded, &ldquo;why not?&rdquo;

The next step involved preparing the upstairs nookie

So that way, there would be a place to play inside with Cookie

While Cookie turned out to be a great fetcher

One big problem with Cookie was getting caught by the dog catcher

With the dog catcher charging papa dick 25 dollars to get Cookie returned

Papa Dick asked Tony Balony exactly what he had learned;

To which Tony said, &ldquo;papa Dick, I&rsquo;ll never let Cookie out of my sight for sure&rdquo;

And with all the trouble Cookie would cause, watching Cookie closely was certainly the cure.&rdquo;

THE END

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Tony Goes To School

When Tony was only five years old, Ma Jo told Tony he had to go to school;

But Tony Balony was afraid to go to school because he didn&rsquo;t think he was cool. 
With his straight blonde hair and his big wide smile,

Tony Balony quickly raised his hand then stood up for a while. 
And from that point forward, Tony Balony was never nervous about going to school again&hellip;

THE END

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Tony Learns to Tie His Shoes

When Tony was four and running in lots of races,

His father, Papa Dick told tony to learn to tie his shoe laces.

A Peek Into the Exciting Life of a Baby Boomer


The Exciting Life of a Baby Boomer


Available on Amazon, below is an excerpt from the new book My Pursuit of Happiness: The Exciting Life of a Baby Boomer. 
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Starting with my roots and the day I was born, at the start of the baby boomers generation, this biography documents the exciting journey of my life, my family, my native Frisian home and my three home countries Germany and later Switzerland and the USA. 
As I lived a very exciting and international life, my story gets more interesting. There were events in my childhood and my formative years, experiences from my adult years and extensive business and pleasure travels, in 61 countries.

A Foreign Dean of Students at a Japanese University


Below is an excerpt from&nbsp;The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don&rsquo;t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me&nbsp;by Robert W. 
Robert Norris goes to military prison as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, embraces the counterculture upon release, wanders the world in search of his identity, and eventually lands in Japan, where he finds his niche as a university professor, spends two years as the dean of students, and retires as a professor emeritus. Despite their separation by the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Robert and Kay maintain a lifelong commitment of love, respect, and support that enriches both their lives. A must read for all mothers and sons, and for those who&rsquo;ve wondered what the road less traveled would&rsquo;ve been like had they taken that first step.

New Book is a Survival Story of WWII


You can learn more about the author at his website: https://ryankellyauthor.com. 
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Synopsis

Throughout my 10-plus years of researching this book, I strived to keep events, dates and facts as true as possible. 
This book is about the soldiers who fight our wars. Maybe he wanted to talk about it.

Author Explains What Sparked New Novel -- and What Sparks Him


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Gibbs Williams, Ph.D., is a noted psychoanalyst in Manhattan with fifty years of expertise in issues of individual identity, isolation, self-esteem, anxiety, anger, substance abuse, mental health, and others. His broad base of knowledge in the field, along with his work on behalf of many patients over the years, makes him a particularly viable choice to interview the author of Almost Like Praying because of one of the book&#39;s main characters, whose emotional makeup has roots in some of the areas central to Dr. 
Gibbs Williams: Almost Like Praying takes place in the 1970s and 1980s, a baby boomer timeframe that I&rsquo;ve noticed you&rsquo;ve used a number of times both in fiction and nonfiction. How did the story at the heart of this new novel make its way into your head--particularly the characters of Dolores and Maria, both of whom drive a major portion of the narrative.

Baby Boomer Detectives Rock!


Have you noticed that there are few, if any, Baby Boomer heroes in books, on tv or in movies. That void has now been remedied by Baby Boomer detective couple, Barb and Bernie Silver, a/k/a The Sleuthing Silvers (www.thesleuthingsilvers.com). If you imagine Nancy Drew married to one of the Hardy Boys 50 years later, then you will have a good picture of the Silvers. 
What makes them different is that they investigate only cases, as their motto states, &quot;Where age is an edge.&quot; For example, their first case was &quot;The Mystery of the Missing Reading Glasses,&quot; an issue with which many Baby Boomers have struggled.

The Irregular Memory

The following is an excerpt from The Granny Who Stands on Her Head: Reflections on growing older

Conversations with my husband often go something like this:

&ldquo;I saw that nice guy just now in the supermarket and said hello.&rdquo;

&ldquo;What guy?&rdquo;

&ldquo;You know, the one we met last summer on a boat &ndash; he was tall and very nice. Yet we often know what we are talking about. These conversations can be annoying, as we don&rsquo;t always get the connection we want. I had met them, after all, and knew something about them.

Excerpt From New Novel "Time's Up"


The following is an excerpt from the novel &quot;TIME&rsquo;S UP&quot; by Mike Ross. 
PROLOGUE

The walking dead really do exist.&nbsp; They move freely among us.&nbsp; They are better dressed, groomed, have better posture and speak, even eloquently at times.&nbsp; They rarely have blood dripping off their chins.&nbsp; Those ugly, shabby, stumbling, bloody people on TV are just actors.&nbsp; The real walking dead are the career politicians or &lsquo;carpols&rsquo; for short.&nbsp;

Carpols were once alive but were infected by an insatiable lust for power.&nbsp; This lust destroyed their humanity including their compassion, decency and sense of fairness.&nbsp; It did not interfere at all with their ability to walk, talk and behave almost like humans.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Carpols are those politicians who have bought into the idea that individuals cannot accomplish anything.&nbsp; No individual can ever have enough power to really make a difference.&nbsp; Carpols are convinced that the only way anything can be accomplished is if they all gang up.&nbsp; This gang is called a Political Party.&nbsp; Only the Party, as a unified whole, can accumulate enough power to make anything happen.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s like reaching critical mass for a thermonuclear bomb.&nbsp;

Once the carpol accepts this fact, then he must also accept that the Party&rsquo;s goals are all that matter.&nbsp; The things he wanted to accomplish when he got into politics to make things &lsquo;better&rsquo; no longer matter.&nbsp; The carpol loses what made him and his ideas unique and special.&nbsp; He relinquishes his self-identity without which he becomes one of the walking dead. They can then say or do anything that is in their Party&rsquo;s best interest.&nbsp;

So why do normal people turn into carpols?&nbsp; This had been a mystery for years but recent medical research may have shed some light on this strange phenomenon.&nbsp;&nbsp; A team of pediatricians attached sensors all over the little bodies of several newborn babies.&nbsp; These sensors detected what the researchers believe to be communication occurring among the internal organs of these newborns.&nbsp; This only happens in the first few months of life.&nbsp; Exactly how the communication works remains a mystery but researchers believe that the purpose of this intra-body conferencing is to establish which organ will be the body&rsquo;s leader.&nbsp; After that harrowing slide down the birth canal, the little body knows it has entered a whole new world.&nbsp; This is going to take some getting used to and a good leader will be needed.&nbsp;

Each of the critical organs believes that it would make the best leader.&nbsp; The brain claims leadership because it controls everything from voluntary to involuntary actions.&nbsp; The heart claims it should be the leader because it supplies the blood that all the organs need.&nbsp; The eyes claim it because they collect most of the information about this strange new outside world.&nbsp; The stomach supplies all the nutrition the body needs so it should be in charge.&nbsp; Each organ argues its case on why it should be the leader.&nbsp;

While not as prominent an organ as the others, the anus also stakes its claim to leadership.&nbsp; This often results in jeers and jokes from the other organs.&nbsp; &ldquo;There is no way the anus could lead the entire body,&rdquo; they all say.&nbsp; The anus may become offended by this ridicule so it replies, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll show you guys!&rdquo;&nbsp; It shuts down.&nbsp; It tightens up.&nbsp; It lets nothing pass.&nbsp; Soon the brain gets dizzy.&nbsp; The heart beat becomes erratic.&nbsp; The eyes cannot focus.&nbsp; The stomach cramps up.&nbsp; If the anus can hold out long enough, if it can build the pressure up high enough, it can sometimes capture the leadership spot.&nbsp; These little babies grow up to be carpols. Mitsugi Ito was a Japanese man who lived in a suburb of Manila with his Filipino wife.&nbsp;&nbsp; He was a well respected nuclear physicist with advanced degrees from Todai University in Tokyo and MIT in the US and was the Director of the Philippine Atomic Energy Agency.&nbsp;

On the evening of May 5 while driving home from work two cars boxed him in, made him slow down and then forced him off the road.&nbsp; His car hit a tree and came to a dead stop.&nbsp; Almost immediately three men dragged him from his car and drugged him into unconsciousness.&nbsp; He woke up a few -later on a boat.&nbsp; He was still groggy from the drug but slowly regained his senses.&nbsp;

He was held below decks, guarded for the entire trip.

Five Classic Novels to Reread After Fifty


The sixty years of my life have been consumed by books. I&rsquo;ve revisited (and retaught) a lot of classic novels lately, mostly to people around my age and beyond. 
Why do we set this novel for fifteen-year-olds. You have to have lived a good while, walked the battlefields of love, and trudged to the other side to understand this remarkable tale of a woman who dares it all to get the love she wants.

20 Years Later, Retired FDNY Firefighter Remembers 9/11


When Gerald &ldquo;Jerry&rdquo; Sanford returned to his old stomping grounds in New York on Sept. 10, 2001, he had a simple mission &ndash; to reunite an antique leather fire helmet he had discovered with the Bronx firehouse from which it originated. 
At that time, Sanford had long been retired after a 29-year career with the FDNY. As the terrorist attacks unfolded, Sanford and his traveling companions were on their way back to Florida.

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