Growing Old Disgracefully

Author : Rohan Candappa
Publisher : Random House
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781407079479

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Growing Old Disgracefully by Rohan Candappa Pdf

Does your mother think it's really charming to talk to every rose bush on the street? Has your father taken up obsessive fundraising for a donkey sanctuary on retirement? Does he collect elastic bands because 'you never know when you'll need one'? Do your parents make jokes about sheltered housing? Have they guessed that you've already sent off for the brochures? Do they seem to be having too much fun for a couple with two fake hips, a pacemaker and three steel pins between them? Then you need Rohan Candappa. The man who bought you The Little Book of Stress, The Little Book of Wrong Shui and The Autobiography of a One Year Old has hit the nail on the head once more. Full of wit and wisdom, Rohan will give you a much needed laugh in the face of your parents' increasingly barmy behaviour. Just one thing, you'll probably find your parents have bought it too. And they'll probably think its really funny.

Author : Danny Cahill
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781626343993

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Aging Disgracefully by Danny Cahill Pdf

Does it count as a midlife crisis if you screw up your life and you happen to be entering middle age, or did you screw up your life because you are entering middle age? ​And does it matter if you take the kind of life most people envy—wealth and success and recognition—and blow it up, hurting everyone you love along the way? Who does that?! Danny Cahill had made it, by any measure: He was a recruiting industry icon with a brilliant, lucrative career, hugely in demand as a motivational speaker, and a noted playwright and writer. But once a serious gym injury began to unravel his childhood deprivations, his mother’s shame-based modus operandi, and the choices he made in search of love, he realized he had thrown it all away in spectacular fashion. In Aging Disgracefully, Cahill takes on the emotionally tricky territory of memoir and charges into deep water to tell a frequently humorous and wonderfully dark tale that spares no one in his life, least of all himself. Painfully authentic and unapologetic, Cahill’s account reveals that no matter how the world rewards you for being at the top of your game, an unresolved past can follow you, shape your choices, and lead to comic and tragic results when lines are crossed. Cahill’s story is ultimately about climbing out of messes, saving ourselves from ourselves, finding exactly what we’ve been looking for, and realizing that it was there all along.

Author : Michael John Lowis
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Aging
ISBN : 1634844882

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Ageing Disgracefully, with Grace by Michael John Lowis Pdf

A doctor was once heard to say that it is a pity we know our own age; otherwise, we could just say that we are as old as we feel. The populations of most countries are ageing, and because of this we can anticipate many years of retirement. We need to make the most of this opportunity, but we are faced with exhortations such as "act your age." Does this mean that older people should not have fun anymore, but should instead conform to conventional stereotypes such as being unproductive, conventional, inflexible, serene, and no longer interested in intimacy? In other words, should people have to grow old gracefully? The answer is no. Instead, we should enjoy ageing while still having fun and living life to the fullest. The author, Dr. Mike Lowis, is a psychologist and theologian who has numerous academic publications to his name, including over sixty articles in peer-reviewed journals, two books and two book chapters. His vast research experience, plus being himself in the third age' of life, adequately qualifies him to write on the topic of making the most of the retirement years. He delights in debunking the myths and stereotypes of ageing, and gives many examples of individuals who have achieved great things in later life. The book includes details on several ways that can help older people to cope with life, including making full use of both music and humour. This book is written in an accessible style that should also appeal to the interested general reader. The book also includes some simple self-test exercises that readers are invited to complete, the results of which should help those interested to gauge their own levels of progress toward life satisfaction.

Author : Hen Co-op
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:57352280

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Growing Old Disgracefully by Hen Co-op Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016066362

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Growing Old Disgracefully by Anonim Pdf

You are never too old to live life with self-esteem and playfulness. Written by six women between the ages of sixty-four and seventy-seven, this book challenges stereotypes and suggests ways to make life at any age more joyous and creative.

Author : Tony Husband
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784287539

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Ups and Downs of Growing Old Disgracefully by Tony Husband Pdf

Author : Virginia Ironside
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141901749

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No! I Don't Want to Join a Bookclub by Virginia Ironside Pdf

Too young to get whisked away by a Stannah Stairlift, or to enjoy the luxury of a walk-in bath (but not so much that she doesn't enjoy comfortable shoes), Marie is all the same getting on in years - and she's thrilled about it. She's a bit preoccupied about whether to give up sex - Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! - but there are compensations, like falling in love with her baby grandson, and maybe falling in love with someone else too? Curmudgeonly, acute, touching and funny, this diary is what happens when grumply old women meet Bridget Jones.

Author : Laura Way
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839825705

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Punk, Gender and Ageing by Laura Way Pdf

Using in-depth interviews with punk women growing old disgracefully, Way explores how women construct punk identities. Reflecting on punk ‘then’ and ‘now’, they reveal the constraints punk women experience on their identities growing older, the complex relationship between appearance and dress, and the impact of social expectations around aging.

Author : Hermione Gingold,Anne Clements Eyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0749302410

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How to Grow Old Disgracefully by Hermione Gingold,Anne Clements Eyre Pdf

Gingold recalls her eventful life from her first appearance on the stage, at the age of eight. She tells of her marriages to Michael Joseph, to Eric Maschwitz, her exploits on the London cabaret scene, and her relationships with Noel Coward, Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Baddeley.

Author : Tim Whyatt
Publisher : Templar Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781787413030

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Senior Moments: Ageing Disgracefully by Tim Whyatt Pdf

A timelessly funny cartoon collection by Tim Whyatt. Everyone has at some stage had a 'senior moment' whether you've called your child by the wrong name, returned from the supermarket without the one item you went out for in the first place or even moaned at the annoying kid who is playing their music too loud. The years may keep piling up and our bodies may be losing the ultimate battle against gravity but our humour remains the same! Senior Moments: Ageing Distgracefully is an amusing collection of some of the best of two-time 'Henries' winner, Tim Whyatt's hilarious imagery, depicting the highs, lows, laughter and indignities of later life.

Author : Alan Lakey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0946719454

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The Pretty Things by Alan Lakey Pdf

Decadence, drugs, delirium and trauma. The action-packed story of the British Beat Boom's "Enfants Terribles."

Author : Colin Cotterill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798592590887

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Ageing Disgracefully by Colin Cotterill Pdf

NEW SECOND EDITION 16 Colin Cotterill illustrated short stories first published in 2009 INCLUDES THE DR. SIRI STORY, HAS ANYONE SEEN MRS. LIGHTSWITCH? This delightful collection of short stories takes a humorous look at the lives of people who have passed the age of sixty and are still behaving very, very naughtily. The collection takes us from England to Asia with stops in Australia and the United States and it proves the point that disgusting old people are to be found just about everywhere. We enter the troubled minds of murderers, bank robbers, practical jokers, serial killers, perverts and just regular old liars all of whom are old enough to know better. You'll doubtless recognize people you know and be forced to admit to a few wiles of your own. The stories are: Gran Larceny A Night on the Tiles Jack Wong Has a Rare Moment of Lucidity Tart The One Legged Marathon Runner of 12B Wildebeest Crescent The Inside Job Has Anyone Seen Mrs. Lightswitch? Fanta Man Playing Grand Theft Auto III With Death It's a Dog's Life (In Four Short Acts) Ode to a Siam Square Pizza Life as a Torreja Collecting Old Footprints A Slightly Embellished True Story from the Gulf of Siam Coconuts Forked With a keen a keen eye for human foibles and a wicked sense of humor, Colin has collected and illustrated the colorful lives of elders found along his journey from his English home to his new home in Thailand with stops in Australia, the US and Laos along the way.

Author : Mike Haskins,Clive Whichelow
Publisher : Wrinklies
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Old age
ISBN : 1911610236

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Wrinklies Growing Old Disgracefully by Mike Haskins,Clive Whichelow Pdf

Growing older doesn't mean you have to grow up! If you're the sort of golden oldie who still likes to party hard, chats up strangers in bars, listens to loud music (and not because your hearing is going), or dresses so outrageously that your grandchildren beg you to "tone it down", then this book is for you. Full of irreverent advice on how to misbehave and put the younger generation to shame, Wrinklies Growing Old Disgracefully is a hilarious celebration of mis-spent seniority, written by two successful comedy sketch writers.

Author : Carol Lynn Pearson
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781423615064

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In Dog Years I'm Dead by Carol Lynn Pearson Pdf

Quips and quotes about aging to keep you laughing into your golden years. If there’s one thing most of us have learned by midlife, it’s that sharing laughter is what makes for the best memories—and one of the best ways to live until you die. You know you’re getting older when… •you do the hokey pokey and put your left hip out—and it stays out •you’re cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police •you’re sitting in a rocker and can’t get it started This treasury of humorous observations can lift the spirits of that large portion of the population who are settling into a new phase of life—and want to add laughter to all the other medicines they’re taking.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141959832

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CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE by John Mortimer Pdf

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations. Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers.