Baby Boomer Ramblings

Baby Boomer Ramblings
Author: Gene McParland
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2014-04
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1452594244

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 life's gifts. Personally, I prefer to live life as a poem. Poetry adds magic to life. It's the mind's and heart's way of expressing one's inner voice. That is what this book does. Unlike a textbook of life that one reads and studies, poetry is recited by one's mind and speaks to one's 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, I'm finally at that stage where I've 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.
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645593207

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

Ramblings of a Baby Boomer

Ramblings of a Baby Boomer
Author: Norman Burt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781449083724

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.

The Baby Boom

The Baby Boom
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-01-07
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0802121977

A portrait of the baby boom generation celebrates the bad trips, questionable politics, and outrageous styles of the author and his generation while analyzing how the boom shaped contemporary America.

Utter A Few Adjectives!

Utter A Few Adjectives!
Author: Mark Randolph Watters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387158317

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!

Worlds Beyond

Worlds Beyond
Author: Mark Randolph Watters
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 222
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1387259938

The Hopeful Family

The Hopeful Family
Author: Amelia Richardson Dress
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1640653848

Raise hopeful, grounded and action-oriented children in a time that feels full of uncertainty. Kids and parents alike are feeling the weight of these troubling times. Anxiety disorders are on the rise in teens and children. “Climate anxiety” is a phrase entering our cultural lexicon. Ancient practices of Christianity, both internal and external, can be a guidepost for parents navigating this uncharted territory. They give us a way to be grounded as well as provide a way of living with purpose in a time of urgency. The Hopeful Family is the guidebook for parents who are building a life of meaning and hope even in a time of unease. Readers will be reminded of the hope that is part of the Christian story and find both inspiration and evidence to step more fully into a framework of abundance and optimism.

Generation X

Generation X
Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312054366

Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.

The Hilliker Curse

The Hilliker Curse
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2010-09-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1409023419

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.

Decorating a Room of One's Own

Decorating a Room of One's Own
Author: Susan Harlan
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1683353420

What would Little Women be without the charms of the March family’s cozy New England home? Or Wuthering Heights without the ghost-infested Wuthering Heights? Getting lost in the setting of a good book can be half the pleasure of reading, and Decorating a Room of One’s Own brings literary backdrops to the foreground in this wryly affectionate satire of interior design reporting. English professor and humorist Susan Harlan spoofs decorating culture by reimagining its subject as famous fictional homes and “interviews” the residents who reveal their true tastes: Lady Macbeth’s favorite room in the castle, or the design inspiration behind Jay Gatsby’s McMansion of unfulfilled dreams. Featuring 30 entries of notable dwellings, sidebars such as “Setting Up an Ideal Governess’s Room,” and four-color spot illustrations throughout, Decorating a Room of One’s Own is the ideal book for readers who appreciate fine literature and a good end table.