DO YOU FEEL AS OLD AS YOU ARE: Conversations with My Grandaughter - Softcover

Simpson, Anne

 
9780990807384: DO YOU FEEL AS OLD AS YOU ARE: Conversations with My Grandaughter
Softcover
ISBN 10: 099080738X ISBN 13: 9780990807384
Verlag: HUFF PUB ASSOC LLC, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

What are you most worried about as you grow old?What's your favorite part of growing older?Does age really bring wisdom?How do you want to be remembered?In a society that is ashamed of aging and afraid of death, Anne Simpson and her granddaughter explore questions that most of us are too fearful or too polite to ask. Through poetry and vignettes, with family and friends, Anne opens a conversation that she hopes will include the reader and ripple out to different generations

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anne Simpson is an eighty-year-old woman who has raised a blended family and has been a farmer, teacher, caregiver, and poet. Her work is published in several anthologies, including Bound Together Like the Grasses, which was written with her writing group and won the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for poetry in 2013.She has a lay diploma from United Theological Seminary. Anne's husband, Bob, was a United Church of Christ minister, and when he became afflicted with Alzheimer's they wrote a book about their long journey. Later, she adapted it as a church curriculum: Through the Wilderness of Alzheimer's: A Guide in Two Voices. Anne now lives in St Paul near her family and close to "old" friends.

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Verlag
HUFF PUB ASSOC LLC
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
099080738X
ISBN 13 
9780990807384
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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