02681cam a2200409 i 4500 609368768 TxAuBib 20221116120000.0 161113s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2016041754 9781410496232 1410496236 (OCoLC)959258129 DLC eng rda DLC BTCTA OCLCO JZ4 BKL IUK JQM INO TxAuBib rda Spiegelman, Willard, author. Senior moments [text (large print)] : looking back, looking ahead / by Willard Spiegelman. Large print ed. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2017. ©2017. 319 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike press large print lifestyles Talk -- Dallas -- Japan -- Manhattan -- Books -- Art -- Nostalgia -- Quiet. "A moving collection of essays on aging and happiness Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Spiegelman's expertly crafted book considers, with wisdom and elegance, how to be alert to the joys that brim from unexpected places even as death draws near. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. A clear-eyed book of memories, written in eight searching and courageously honest essays, Senior Moments is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore "-- Provided by publisher. Spiegelman, Willard. Authors, American 20th century Biography. Authors, American 21st century Biography. College teachers United States Biography. Aging Psychological aspects. Life change events Psychological aspects. Happiness. Pleasure. Large type books. . SELF-HELP / Aging. Thorndike press large print lifestyles.