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|  | | Elder Expectations: My Life in Rictameters
This book looks at the realities of elder life through the medium of rictameters (nine-line poems with 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2 syllables).
It's amazing how much can be said in this limited form. Topics include Aging, Writing and Reading, Months and Weeks, Weather and the Seasons, Duties and Routines, Activities and Pastimes, and Observations and Reflections.
| |  | | Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor
This book is not a chronological autobiography, but a collection of personal essays about teaching, travel, retirement, aging, and writing.
From the final chapter:
Writing is a wonderful way to bring what you see and do into sharper focus. When you write about ordinary experiences as simple as taking a walk or eating at a favorite restaurant, you expand that experience by giving it texture and depth that it wouldn't otherwise have. Writing forces us to look attentively at what we see and to interpret it, as well as to remember it. | |  | | Seniorwriting: a Brief Guide for Seniors Who Want to Write
This brief writing guide can make writing life stories easy, especially for seniors who do not consider themselves writers.
This brief guide is a manual for seniors who need to record their valuable experiences and memories for themselves and their families. It covers journaling and the benefits of personal writing to disover, to heal, to reinvent, and to share. It offers short writing samples by the author and describes various methods of organizing, revising, editing, printing, self-publishing, and sharing life stories. This book is a non-technical writing guide for those who do not consider themselves writers, but are willing to try. It offers ideas, examples, and choices, but no rigid rules. |
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