"Life in a Slower Lane" by Joan Creager
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ISBN 1-58939-374-0. $13.95. Softcover. 188 Pages. Retired or soon to retire? Want a glimpse of a less hurried, more reflective life? Joan Creager's Life in a Slower Lane shows you what it feels like to be retired–its joys and frustrations, its pains and pleasures. Essays in this collection reflect on retirement and on personal and family experiences over the years. Some essays look at today's challenging problems from the perspective of a retiree. Essay topics include: finding the right place to retire, getting a Medicare card, dealing with a hip replacement that went awry, making a granddaughter's wedding dress, growing up WASP, battling a groundhog named Monax, moving-in-day on a college campus, trials of exercise, concerns for a gay son, garden fever, how clocks rule our lives, global warming, overpopulation, right to die, and living sustainably. The collection ends with the author's fantasy on selling her kitchen and recipes for soups that can be made in her scaled-down kitchenette. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Joan G. Creager grew up on a farm in southern Indiana in the 1930s and 1940s, and studied at Purdue University, where she met and married her husband of fifty years. She enjoyed an interesting career as a professor of biology, but writing has always been part of her life. She served as editor of the American Biology Teacher for seven years, authored two editions of an anatomy and physiology textbook, co-authored a microbiolgy textbook and two editions of a high school biology text. Now that Joan is retired she writes and records commentaries for WPSU, Penn State's PBS radio station and she writes letters to the editor of the local Centre Daily Times. She is currently revising Pigeon Roost, a young adult novel based on her 19th century ancestors, and teaching Writing Your Life Stories, a course for senior citizens in her community. After Joan and John raised their children, they traveled to seventy countries and seven continents. Login to review this product