The symptoms of old age can approach with the relentless, if sometimes quieter force, of a Tsunami. It may be brutally marked one day by catching yourself unexpectedly in the mirror for what seems like the first time, and noticing a face that looks more like crushed tissue paper than the soft rose you remembered.
While still in our scrumptious sixties we were categorised by some, rather euphemistically, as Young Old. However, after crossing the invisible threshold into our 8th decade (i.e. our seventies) and beyond we start to move into a different category of 'Old Old'.
There was a time when we believed the Biblical adage, "three score years and ten". Now in the 21st century this has been rewritten to be "fourscore years and more".
Our books introduce you to the what we like to call the LOTTELs, that is, Lots Of Time To Enjoy Life, as well as other wide ranging topics including sexuality. Yes, we still enjoy doing 'it'.
Like a magic carpet ride, my stories unfold before you. Knowing the limitations of revealing a whole life, my memoir offers glimpses into rich and exciting life events.
Jack Myers story is of the rough and tumble in country towns in Victoria and NSW well before TV and when the 'Pub' was the focus of the lives of many families and workers.
This is Maureen's debut novel (fiction)
You will read about women's resilience, experiencing a different way of life in the Top End, and its health system, the beautiful Daly River, abundant bird life and of course the mysterious Banyan tree.
Are you at a turning point in your life?
This book offers a glimpse into the world of ceremony and how the right ceremony for you can bring clarity, joy, and transformation. Ceremonies, or rites of passage as they are sometimes called, have been often shut out of our lives.
This book revisits Ceremonial possibilities.
The Practical Book of Ceremonies for the Southern Hemisphere will help you create new possibilities.
Behind the Label: The Naked Truth, is a lighthearted look at fashion. It exposes the way clothes affect our lives. This happens both personally as we use our clothes for fun, power and subjugation, and environmentally as our clothes daily contribute to the destruction of our planet. Clothing is one of the biggest polluters in the world. Every 10 minutes in NSW alone we dump 6,000kg of used clothing to landfill.
From their wealth of experience as health professionals in nursing, caring, education and management and the odd sideline as a tourism operator, the authors have had the priviledge of sharing the life experiences of many ordinary "bread-and-butter" women. They found their humour, resilience and insight a revelation and that being a sexagenarian can be both fullfilling and exciting.
The vitaility, insights and "love of life" demonstrated in this book are truly inspirational. read more...
To gather these inspirational vignettes, Maureen and Joan interviewed women in Australia and New Zealand. "Glimpses into the lives of Positively Aging Women" gives us an opportunity to consider how older women, aged seventy to hundred and beyond, are contributing to the well-being of our community. By describing the unsung lives of these women we get a glimpse of how maturity really is and can be, rather than the negative myths often presented by the popular media. Myths such as "we're all going to end up in a nursing home you know!" and "the aged are such a drain on the tax payer".
Maureen and Joan delight in exploding these false myths of maturity and their book "Glimpses" does this both poignantly and beautifully, making it a fabulous and uplifting gift for mother, sister, aunt or friend. read more...