Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To) She shares her love of tea and travel, her pleasure in family and friends, and her ongoing frustration at her penchant for losing items large and small, worthless and precious. The eighty-eight-year-old author approaches the challenges of
| TITLE | : | Over the Hill, You Pick Up Speed: Reflections on Aging (For Anyone Who Happens To) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.67 (382 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1584655267 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Hardcover |
| PAGES | : | 144 Pages |
| PUBLISH | : | 2006-05-31 |
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From the heartbreak of giving up one's driver's license to the joys of geriatric dating, Nardi Reeder Campion brings her distinctive mix of wit and candor to the subject of aging. The eighty-eight-year-old author approaches the challenges of growing older with imagination and an undimmed zest for life, from exercises that improve one's memory ("for me, memory is the thing I forget with") to creative solutions to being careless in rural America (she does not recommend hitch-hiking). Campion considers with amusement both the things that change (society's attitudes toward sex) and those that remain the same (her own inability to use the f-word). She shares her love of tea and travel, her pleasure in family and friends, and her ongoing frustration at her penchant for losing items large and small, worthless and precious. And she introduces us to some notable people she has met along the way w
EDITORIAL :
"This woman knows how to choose a word, shape a sentence, construct a paragraph, design an essay. Beyond craft, however, blooms that intangible--voice. It's the infusion of her voice that makes the essays in this collection so remarkable. By voice I mean her life experiences, her unusual ways of seeing and thinking, her presence, her spirit."--Concord Monitor
"Nardi Campion is a pioneer Delightful.--(Milford, NH) Cabinet
"An invaluable first step to growing old is to read Nardi Reeder Campion's astute and delightful guide to that far bourne."--Wellesley Alumni Magazine
REVIEW :
I teach introductory Excel courses as well as more advanced Excel applications. I purchased this book hoping it would help me create better drumbeats for my music. Bryant is, in my opinion, one of the foremost young apologists in the nation. I'm not saying that reading this will automatically give you a 5, but if you put the time and effort into the class, and then read the Princeton, I think you can definitely pull a passing score. There are other non-Asian and even Eurasian characters as well as one Afro-Asian character in an earlier volume, which provides a "diverse" look at Japan and Japanese culture.
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