Current Work
Completed manuscript seeking publication
Bargains:
A Coming of Aging Memoir Told in Tales
We, the elderly, have been taught to objectify ourselves as jokes, to expect to be overlooked, our less than shapely forms proof of society’s worst fears. People glance at our crenellated necks and spotted hands and think of us—if they think of us at all—as faded beings passively waiting for the last bus to arrive, opening its doors with a sigh.
Cut! Wrong picture! Rewind that tape. Here's the surprise. Inside this less than juicy body resides a fecund mind and a fluttering heart, not in need of defibrillation, but beating with the powerful rhythms of life.
In, Bargains: A Coming of Aging Memoir Told in Tales, a 61,200-word collection of twelve personal essays, I move through my seventies from the last vestiges of middle age to the true beginning of old age. Intimacy, friendship, family, self, work and mortality are explored, written from the perspective of my generation, the Baby Boomers, that fatted pig in the python of time.
