Valerie Schultz

Till the Moon Be No More (eBook, ePUB)

The Grit and Grace of Growing Older

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Aging is an inescapable part of life, something we celebrate when we are young and intent on achieving all those milestones - 16 and driving! 18 and voting! 21 and drinking! - but that becomes more sobering as the milestones are fewer and perhaps grimmer. This book addresses, from the point of view and personal experience of a 65-year-old baby boomer with a bad hip, how we got here, how we carry on our journey with grace and humor, and where we are going next.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538193389
• Artikelnr.: 74627885

Autorenporträt

Valerie Schultz is a freelance writer, journalist, columnist for The Bakersfield Californian, and a contributing writer to the Jesuit publication America and the daily prayer book Give Us This Day. Her essays and short stories have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune, as well as in Catholic publications such as US Catholic, Commonweal, Human Development, and The National Catholic Reporter. Her books include Closer: Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God (2008), Overdue: A Dewey Decimal System of Grace (2019) and A Hill of Beans: The Grace of Everyday Troubles (2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Aging in the Generations Before Us
Chapter 2: Lessons of Mortality
Chapter 3: Incorrect Adages
Chapter 4: Parallels of Babyhood and Old Age
Chapter 5: The Politics of Aging
Chapter 6: Some Physical and Mental Realities of Aging
Chapter 7: Balancing Outrage and Acceptance
Chapter 8: In Praise of Invisible Women
Chapter 9: Circling to Land
Chapter 10: Generativity and Integrity
Chapter 11: The Stuff We Leave
Chapter 12: The Afterlife
Afterword
Index
About the Author