Baby Boomer Ramblings
Baby Boomer Ramblings

Author: Gene McParland

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1452594252

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What a gift life is! It comes ready to open every morning. Each day is totally unique. Each day can be a new adventure. It can be a source of joy, or of sorrow. It all depends on how we approach it. The secret to joyful living is learning to look at life through the eyes of a small child. As a bona fide baby boomer, I have lived a life filled with many joys and some regrets. Today I choose to live life in joy and with a sense of childlike wonderment. This book is a reflection on how to recapture the sense of wonder and joy we were born with. This book is a collection of thoughts, ramblings, and experiences about our special gift of life. Baby Boomer Ramblings offers my thoughts, observations and suggestions, on living life in a more positive and happier way. All of this is wrapped around a poem, or more correctly, a poem wrapped around lifes gifts. Personally, I prefer to live life as a poem. Poetry adds magic to life. Its the minds and hearts way of expressing ones inner voice. That is what this book does. Unlike a textbook of life that one reads and studies, poetry is recited by ones mind and speaks to ones heart and spirit. At the minimum, this book offers some food for thought on how to live in the moment. Learn how to live life with a sense of awe and childlike glee. As a baby boomer who has experienced around two-thirds of my life, Im finally at that stage where Ive finally got it. Read this book and discover how to have contentment and laughter. Become a childlike poet of life and be forever young!

Ramblings
Ramblings

Author: Tom Golden

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2019-10-09

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1645593207

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The stories in this book are all short. Some of them are pretty funny, some awfully serious, some upbeat and adventurous, while still others are quite sad. There's humor, romance, heartbreak, suspense, and even some career advice. You'll laugh and you might even cry, but most of all, you'll be thoroughly ENTERTAINED. Once you start reading RAMBLINGS, you won't want to put it down. Included are the following: Growing up in Minnesota and surviving the cold as well as an older brother Pursuing a first love in the seventh grade (eventually marrying her despite her father's objection) Crazy and even dangerous adventures with his brother, Jerry (when he said, "Watch this," there was big trouble ahead). YIKES! Hot rods and custom cars (and the local police that hated them) Opening a burger, fries, and malt shop restaurant (and dealing with the Godfather) Being trapped on a South Dakota ski lift in a raging rain and lightning storm with a new bride. Raising three sons, lake living, and the garage-band phase A climb to success in the newspaper industry from rookie twenty-year-old classified advertising sales rep to vice president and director

Random Ramblings: Volume I
Random Ramblings: Volume I

Author: Susanne Ross

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1647022584

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Random Ramblings By: Susanne Ross These Random Ramblings are just things that needed to be placed onto paper. Author Susanne Ross attempts to provide some lessons about life as well, or to put a POSITIVE SPIN, or a helpful ending, as she was raised in a very chaotic, dysfunctional home, fraught with two divorces of her parents, and she had very little guidance while growing up. Therefore, she ATTEMPTS, in a roundabout way, to draw a roadmap for life, in some of her poems—a roadmap SHE NEVER HAD, in other words.... We should remember we all are not alone in our humanity in how we view, and experience, this life upon planet Earth.

Ramblings of a Baby Boomer
Ramblings of a Baby Boomer

Author: Norman Burt

Publisher:

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781449083724

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With hardly a nod to chronology, The author moves back and forth through the first twenty years of his life, from trams, horses and valve wirelesses to scooters, cars and rock and roll, boozy coach trips To The seaside, youth clubs and Carnaby Street fashions. The book is about not being very special at a very special time, An ordinary life during extraordinary times, The bombs had finished falling on London some two years before the author was born and so he entered a world where the sky was the limit And The journey was exciting, though cockroaches and smogs had to be dealt with first. Hand built bicycles and soapcarts made way for Vespa's and Lambretta's while grey flannel shorts and long socks lost out to 60's fashions of flairs and tank tops. A camping holiday and holiday camps, boozing and parties, girls And The lack of them, voyeurism, The cold war And The not so cold war, all of these played a part in life and so deserve a mention in the book. One mans life, humourous and unique, no two lives are the same so this one deserves to be told.

Utter A Few Adjectives!
Utter A Few Adjectives!

Author: Mark Randolph Watters

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1387158317

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The follow-up companion volume to Say A Few Syl-la-bles!, Utter A Few Adjectives! is a compilation of short stories, poems, limericks, and comics. This delightfully insightful collection contains introspective studies, stories of the supernatural and the unexplained, reminiscences of a cherished childhood friend, recollections of the author's stay-at-home-dad experiences, the art of the five-line poem, and even offers experiments in stick-man comickery. Sure to please any reader. Enjoy!

The Hilliker Curse
The Hilliker Curse

Author: James Ellroy

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-09-09

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1409023419

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A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme: the author's obsessive pursuit of women. America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir-as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels-about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year was 1958.Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name.Her son, James, was ten years old.He hated and lusted for his mother and "summoned her dead." She was murdered three months later. The Hilliker Curse is a predator's confession, a treatise on guilt and the power of malediction, and above all a cri de cœur. Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman who may just be the long-sought Her. A layered narrative of time and place, emotion and insight, sexuality and spiritual quest, The Hilliker Curse is a brilliant, soul-baring revelation of self.It is unlike any memoir you have ever read.

Fierce with Age
Fierce with Age

Author: Carol Orsborn

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1620453770

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In her breakthrough generational memoir, Boomer expert Carol Orsborn relates the ups and downs of a tumultuous year spent facing, busting, and ultimately triumphing over the stereotypes of growing old. Along the way, she nurtures a love-starved friend through a doomed affair with a younger man, wrestles with the meaning of an exploding fish, and regains her passion for life at the side of her squirrel-crazed dog, Lucky. The message is as deep as it is engaging. In Carol’s own words, “Plummet into aging, stare mortality in the eye, surrender everything and what else is there left to fear? The way is perilous, danger on all sides. But we can be part of a generation no longer afraid of age. We are becoming, instead, a generation fierce with age.”