Aging Gracelessly

Author : Tom Bennett
Publisher : Histria Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592112197

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Aging Gracelessly by Tom Bennett Pdf

The Bible is arguably the greatest masterpiece of literature ever produced. But what makes it great? Who decides whether it is great, accurate or valid? Is one opinion or interpretation better than another?These are questions that are best left to the experts...right? Aging Gracelessly is the culmination of an 18-month study by the author to read the Bible, analyzing it from the perspective of a reluctant agnostic... and hopefully find in it a much anticipated inner peace. It is a genuine attempt to investigate the “Good Book” without the bias and influence of others.The author delves into each book of the Bible and relates the experience with an unusual honesty and candor. He is looking for peace... and possibly salvation... and, like C. S. Lewis, fully expects to get off his agnostic fence to join the two billion other Christian adherents who consider the Bible the ultimate handbook for the soul. Along the way, he discusses with himself many of the facets of our intangible existence; things like good vs evil, reality vs wishful thinking, faith vs brainwashing, and ignorance vs stupidity. Aging Gracelessly raises as many questions as it addresses...and it will make even the most vigorous believers among us think about what we believe.

Author : Chris Brethwaite,John Wagner,Shoebox Greetings
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Pub
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0740700820

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Maxine's Guide to Aging Gracelessly by Chris Brethwaite,John Wagner,Shoebox Greetings Pdf

She's crabby, she's feisty, and she takes no guff from anyone. Maxine has been a hit character since she first appeared on a greeting card back in 1986. No sweet sentiment here; Maxine just tells it like it is! One of Shoebox Greetings' most eccentric and beloved personalities, Maxine now gets her own birthday gift book that is sure to delight cranky birthday observers everywhere. Some of Maxine's choice sayings on aging include: "Birthdays are like relatives at the holidays. They show up whether you want them to or not."Birthdays are a time when there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on. Yeah, those upper arms are always the first to go."Mother Nature thinks of everything. She makes your hair turn gray before it falls out so you don't miss it as much."Birthdays are like chocolate chip cookies. If you think about how many you've had, it kinda makes you sick."

Author : Fay Jacobs
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612940946

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Fried & Convicted by Fay Jacobs Pdf

As the author of four humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her newest tall tales, Fried & Convicted, Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast. This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age . . . Fried & Convicted was written over the last few years and culminates with Election Day, 2016. It chronicles the joy of gaining equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, tales of Icelandic lagoons, Provincetown adventures, and much ado about lesbians of a certain age. It tells a few harrowing personal stories, such as Bonnie’s unnerving medical diagnosis, the time Fay went kayaking with alligators, and how she came up with a public relations scheme to rescue her pal’s purloined pooch. And through it all, she finds a way to make it provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. Featuring Fay’s latest magazine columns plus new, never before published material, Fried & Convicted is a pleasure for longtime fans and new readers alike. Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did! Fay Jacobs spent thirty years in Washington, DC working in journalism and public relations. Her latest project is a one-woman show, Aging Gracelessly: 50 Shades of Fay, which is being performed in theatres around the country. She lives in Rehoboth Beach with her wife of thirty-four years and a Miniature Schnauzer.

Author : James M. Matarazzo,Toby Pearlstein
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781787145252

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The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management by James M. Matarazzo,Toby Pearlstein Pdf

This handbook aims to be an integral text for students of library and information science and a ready-reference for information professional practitioners. The chapters provide a construct through which any information professional may learn abut the major challenges facing them in the early part of the 21st century.

Author : Fay Jacobs
Publisher : Bywater Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781612942902

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Big Girls Don't Fry by Fay Jacobs Pdf

Fay Jacobs is back . . . again . . . really . . . for the LAST time! As the author of five previous humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her FINAL collection of tall tales, Big Girls Don’t Fry: Rehoboth Beach Wrap Up. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast. This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” tangles with the after-effects of an insane election, kissing penguins, riding an opinionated camel, wearing pussy hats, and masking in the time of Covid . . . Big Girls Don’t Fry was compiled over the last few years, beginning in January 2021 and ending with an urgent plea to get out and vote for our lives. It chronicles her chronic losing battle with nature and changing technology, revisits some of her greatest hits and misses, deals with the ups and downs of social distancing, masking, and video happy hours, and reflects on what it was like to be honored by a troop of Girl Scouts. And through it all, Fay finds a way to make her stories provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious. It’s all captured in the final installment of Fay Jacobs’ award-winning Tales from Rehoboth Series. Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did!

Author : Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081081918X

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Index of American Periodical Verse 1984 by Rafael Catalá,James D. Anderson Pdf

The Index of American Periodical Verse is an important work for contemporary poetry research and is an objective measure of poetry that includes poets from the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as well as other lands, cultures, and times. It reveals trends in the output of particular poets and the cultural influences they represent. The publications indexed cover a broad cross-section of poetry, literary, scholarly, popular, general, and "little" magazines, journals, and reviews.

Author : Ken Willidau
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780595909117

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Making a Joke out of One's Life by Ken Willidau Pdf

Written for people who arent laughing at the joke their own life has become, Making a Joke Out of Ones Life contains over 2,500 jokes and one-liners that lets readers laugh at someone elses for a change. Ken Willidaus unique brand of humour addresses all aspects of life - from birth to death and everything in between. Willidau employs a variety of humorous devices to convey his message. Mostly drugs, alcohol and his brain. Ken Willidaus philosophy is that if youre going to make a joke out of your life you might as well make it one everyone can get a good laugh out of, too. The myriad of one-liners includes dark humour, tongue-in-cheek, a few jokes going around town about you, jest, self-defecating humour, plays on words and more. Book sections revolve around themes such as school, religion, sporting, sex, depression and aging. The chapters chart a route through life that make for interesting reading from innocent beginnings to the bitter end and Willidau hopes youll be just killing yourself laughing by the end of it all, too. Throughout the course of the book, Here Goes Nothing The First Weak, The Deformative Years, Friends and Enemas, Sporting A Black Eye, Proxy Morons and Th-Th-Th-Thats All Fooks are just a few of the given takes on the stages of life youll encounter. Looking at life through Ken Willidaus eyes will give you more appreciation for your own life or, at the very least, give you a reason to laugh through some it, if not exactly at it, right now. Making a Joke Out of Ones Life is a perfect read for one of those dismal days when that lonely bottle of wine just isnt enough and adding some cheese would, at least, make it look like youre a happy party of one, anyway, and not just your own funeral party waiting to happen.

Author : Robert Ginsberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495937

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The Aesthetics of Ruins by Robert Ginsberg Pdf

This book constructs a theory of ruins that celebrates their vitality and unity in aesthetic experience. Its argument draws upon over 100 illustrations prepared in 40 countries. Ruins flourish as matter, form, function, incongruity, site, and symbol. Ruin underlies cultural values in cinema, literature and philosophy. Finally, ruin guides meditations upon our mortality and endangered world.

Author : Dave Barry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307758736

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Dave Barry Turns Forty by Dave Barry Pdf

"Just the ticket for the '90s." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE If you're too young for a nursing home yet too old to be a rock star, if your marriage is as exciting as scraping grass off the lawnmower blades, then this hilarious book by Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist and author is for you. Put on your protective eyewear and take a probing look inside your increasingly Spam-like body at: The Midlife (Yawn) Marriage; Wise Financial Planning for Irresponsible Scum Such as Yourself; Sex After 40 (or, Sex? After 40?), and other harsh, but amusing realities that leave you laughing, crying and drooling.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435018330928

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Short Stories from Outing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Luman
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781432758158

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The Lords of Time by Virginia Luman Pdf

In 2055, New America is the last nation on Earth. Thomas Smiles, a college student, is driven to near madness by memories of past and future events that are impossible for him to know. Believing himself to be either insane or reincarnated, Thomas finds a friend in an insane asylum. In this a modern deadhouse , Thomas Smiles learns the true ambition of those who are The Lords of Time .

Author : Jon Smith
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820345260

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Finding Purple America by Jon Smith Pdf

The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence--a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "national project of forgetting." Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in a permanent crisis mode, seeking to affiliate the field and the national essence with youth countercultures that sixties leftists once imagined to be "the future." Such fantasies, Smith argues, have resulted in an old southern studies that cannot understand places like Birmingham or Atlanta (or cities at all) and an American studies that cannot understand red states. Most Americans live in neither a comforting, premodern Mayberry nor an exciting, postmodern Los Angeles but rather in what postcolonialists call "alternative modernities" and "hybrid cultures" whose relationships to past and future, to stability and change, are complex and ambivalent. Looking at how "the South" has played in global metropolitan pop culture since the nineties and at how southern popular and high culture alike have, in fact, repeatedly embraced urban modernity, Smith masterfully weaves together postcolonial theory, cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and, surprisingly, marketing theory to open up the inconveniently in-between purple spaces and places that Americanist and southernist fantasies about "who we are"have so long sought to foreclose.

Author : Mark S. Milwee
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973643364

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Grow Old Along with Me by Mark S. Milwee Pdf

Currently, 42.6 million people in the United States are sixty-five or older. America is not the nicest place to grow old; so much emphasis is placed on youth. However, seniors have a lot to contribute to the world. In Grow Old along with Me, author Mark S. Milwee offers a touching and inspiring Christian commentary that speaks to the value of accepting and welcoming elderly Christians to the church. He shares his own experience in the pastoral ministry as he documents the contributions of the faithful elderly and encourages us to follow their example. Milwee shows seniors how they can be a blessing to others as they grow older and how to add value to those around them as they enter the twilight years. He helps them understand that respect must be earned instead of demanded. Grow Old along with Me reminds all that senior adults are a valuable asset to any church and deserve to be valued, cherished, and treated with dignity and respect. It encourages seniors to make the decision to grow old gracefully and seeks to bring comfort to those who are facing death in the near future.

Author : Collin Wilcox
Publisher : Overamstel Uitgevers
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789049981105

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Find Her a Grave by Collin Wilcox Pdf

To honor a dying don’s last wish, a mob lieutenant searches for hidden diamonds After seven years ruling his empire from prison, Don Carlo remains as powerful as ever, but his heart is beginning to fail. On the verge of death, he begs his right-hand man, Bacardo, to look after his family. Not his wife and children, the don explains, but Louise and Angela—his daughter and granddaughter from a beloved mistress who died long ago. To Louise, the don bequeaths one million dollars in diamonds, hidden in a cemetery in a tiny California town. Securing her inheritance will mean mortal danger for Louise, Bacardo, and the private investigator they hire to help them—a moonlighting director named Alan Bernhardt. Bernhardt understands the risks, but also knows that the theater and the mafia have two things in common: the understanding that a professional is only as good as his word, and that the only way to survive is to act without fear.

Author : Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 077352973X

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Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era by Elinor Camille Sloan,Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité,Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies Pdf

This book assesses Canadian security and defence requirements post September 11.