After the death of her husband of many years, Olivia bravely followed her heart while passing through the many stages of adapting to life alone. Turning her back on loneliness, her curiosity led her to discover a new and wonderful world.

Ten years of dedicated research spent studying the science and art of finding a date. Being a boomer is not easy. Everything has changed from when we were teenagers. This book is a tour of what is out there and how to find it. I will lead you through personal introductions and blind dates. We will visit bars and dance clubs. We will explore internet dating and dating agencies. We will look at love in the office and miscellaneous other potential spots to find true love. I will show you simple truths that should be obvious to all. Then I will take you down the path of introduction to who you will find at the other end of the phone when you ask for that date. What are profiles and what do they really mean? What can you expect on a date that you would not have expected thirty years ago? Through all this valuable and important information, you will find stories of dates that prove the validity of the research. You will meet many wonderful, and some strange, examples of who is out there in the dating world waiting for you to call. After finishing this tour, I still will not guarantee you will find that person who will join you on the road to Happily-Ever-After Land. Nevertheless, at the end of this tour you will be better prepared to find that someone and keep on that road you seek.

In this anthology the author looks at her long life, past and present, compares then and now, and tries to adjust to a world of technology that didn't exist in her youth. With a sense of humor she copes with "aging gracefully" and accepts life as it is now. She writes about her love of traveling, her adventurous trips, her love of skiing.

The timely fiction is pure imagination. Present day issues such as cancer and alcoholism are dramatized. As is loneliness and love.

All features, fiction and non-fiction, touch your emotion, whether ot laugh or to cry, or to wish you were there.

Are you ready for retirement? How can individuals plan for the gradual shift from working to retirement? How can they make the psychological transition from working to not working? Many retirees become ill within a year of leaving work because they fail to plan for a gradual shift from working to retirement. Individuals with outside interests are at less risk than people who spend 60 hours a week on the job, but even hobbies and interests have to be refined prior to retirement. For many people, one of the most profound periods of change is their time of retirement. People's needs and attitudes and different, however, no matter what their personal goals, current age and economic circumstances may be, the strategies they employ to plan for a satisfying retirement are crucial to their mental happiness, physical health and general survival. These strategies will either enhance the quality of their golden years or shorten them drastically.

Why this book? Most books on Retirement are really about Financial Planning or Estate Planning. Not this book! This book is about creating a fulfilling life in retirement; it is a crossover book between self-help and retirement. Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life entices people to set out their hidden dreams, to reveal their lost hopes and to admit their secret desires, and then to plan a life to include them! This book encourages risk taking, honesty, and trusting yourself and others to make a fulfilling life in retirement. This book is aimed at those already retired, and it entices the Baby Boomers who are now retiring in ever increasing numbers. These Baby Boomers have had everything, done everything and will continue to be a driving force in their retirement. They also have a deep hunger to be fulfilled. Many of them have led fast, hectic, shallow lives and they have never explored their souls or their dreams. This book invites them to do both! Create Your Retirement: 55 Valuable Ways to Empower the Rest of Your Life encompasses my own experience. I have retired twice AND I am having the time of my life doing the things I've always wanted to do - following my dreams! I know that retirement can be the most fulfilling time of life. My coaching clients have left their stereotypical thinking behind, thrown off their insecurities and fears to do great things! They have become computer literate, published authors, public speakers and lay preachers. Some have traveled to places they had always dreamed about, others have stepped into roles with family and friends in important new ways that have given them a sense of self-worth and deep feelings of fulfillment. Retirement is a time of living and doing exciting things; it is a time of loving and helping others, and it is about finding the 'real you' within and manifesting that in all its glory! For more information about the book please visit www.bmwalker.com TESTIMONIALS I love the way you lead the reader through the book with powerful questions and real-life examples. Rich Fettke, MCC, Past-President of the Professional and Personal Coaches Association and Author of Extreme Success. Barbara's book gave me an entirely new, exciting, positive perspective on retirement. That alone made it worth the investment of money and time. Irene Leonard, Professional Development Coach and Lawyer. Author of Creating the Practice You Want: A Law Practice Development Work-book. We do such a disservice in our culture to our retirees. They are a valuable resource to be cherished and appreciated. Barbara's book shows us all how important and possible it is to remain fully active and vibrant in our latter years. A must read for all, not just retirees. For with age comes great wisdom! Rick Tamlyn Co-active Coach, Trainer, Founder, It's All Made Up, Inc. The Internet resources are very helpful all listed close together. Great job and every wish for success! E.W. Truant, Published Poet. I think the concept is excellent; it is a very exciting project. L.R. Neaman, Entrepreneur. This book offers valuable information not only about 'how' but 'why' to create a fulfilling lifestyle in retirement. Talane Miedaner, Author of Coach Yourself To Success: 101 Tips from a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life. Retirement offers choice and challenges. You can travel, pursue a new career, write a book or do all three. You will discover how to create the (rest of your) life you want. Dan Poynter, The Self- Publishing Manual, http://ParaPub.com. Create Your Retirement is the perfect solution for people approaching retirement and wondering what they'll do next, and for those already retired and asking if this is all there is. Unlike other books on retiring that focus on financial planning, Barbara Walker has written a book for the 'new retirees,' the baby boomers still young at heart, who are seeking fulfillment, value and purpose in their retirement years. Barbara's practical exercises and enthusiastic style encourage readers to expand their traditional thinking about retirement to discover a new path, implement changes, and create a plan for the rest of their lives. C.J. Hayden, MCC, Author of Get Clients Now! To read a review of this book please visit: www.bookpleasures.com/reviewdetail.php?reviewID=68

Until recently, research on late adulthood has focused on men. This book views the aging process in women age fifty and beyond in their vintage years (so named because people of this age are aging to perfection like vintage wine). Twenty-five women between the ages of 50 and 90 describe their own experiences dealing with the nine developmental tasks typical of late adulthood, revealing the "inner process" of aging not before recognized by researchers in the psychology of late adulthood. The words of these women belie the common belief that aging means catastrophe and endless decline physically and emotionally. The "voices" of these women reveal aging as the full flowering of a process of growth that started at conception.

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