Books worth getting or borrowing, according to
Ron Manheimer, executive director of the NC Center for Creative
Retirement.
Now in a third edition, Robert K. Otterbourg’s Retire and
Thrive: Remarkable People, Age 50-Plus, Share Their
Creative, Productive & Profitable Retirement Strategies, gives us a
look at what ordinary, yet remarkable, people are doing to recharge
and reinvent themselves in life’s second half.
Anthropologist Joel Savishinsky offers his highly readable
Breaking the Watch: The Meaning of Retirement in America, a
multi-year study of folks living in upstate New York, pre-and
post-retirement, that reveals the inner-world of the retiree in the
context of cultural values and attitudes.
Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s now classic, From Age-ing to
Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older reminds us
there’s more to life than midlife preoccupations with climbing the
career ladder and acquiring fancy toys. Want to become a spiritual
elder? Here’s how.
There’s something for everyone in Ellen Freudenheim’s Looking
Forward, An Optimist’s Guide to Retirement. Sex, spirituality,
money, extended careers, volunteering, they’re all there plus a
great lists of books, web sites, resources and profiles.
The polymath (he’s a doctor, psychologist, artist, game inventor)
Gene Cohen shows us there’s something of the creative older artists
and scientist in everyone with his The Creative Age: Awakening
Human Potential in the Second Half of Life.
Non-technical yet seriously informative, John W. Rowe and Robert L.
Kahn’s, Successful Aging sums up social, psychological,
physiological, and medical research to show how it’s never too late
to improve our mental and physical health through making changes in
behavior, life style, and environment.
Beloved American novelist Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety
takes us through 40 years of the intertwined lives of two couples
and reflects the loyalty, vulnerability, conflict, kindness and love
that can only be understood by looking back. This was his last work.
You can never retire too soon says Ernie Zelisnski in his eccentric,
cartoon-filled, advice-giving How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free.
Learn from the man who also wrote, The Lazy Person’s Guide to
Success.
December 2004
Two NCCCR programs of
national interest:
Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend
May 25-27, 2007
Explore your retirement possibilities during a weekend
in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina -
more
Paths to A Creative Retirement
March
10-12, 2006
Sept. 1-3, 2006
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