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How to Age Gracefully

Essays About the Art of Living

By: Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic

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Essays About the Art of Living

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For readers curious about life in assisted living facilities comes a collection of essays that break stereotypes and distill vital lessons from people in later life. A thoughtful and poignant meditation on aging and mortality, How to Age Gracefully tells the story of author Barbara Scoblic’s life inside an assisted living facility through essays and conversations. When she entered an assisted living facility in Bethesda, Maryland, at age eighty-three, journalist and memoirist Scoblic wasn’t expecting to find such rich subject matter. But the residents and staff surprised her with their kindness, wisdom, and sometimes wicked sense of humor—and inspired her to begin taking notes on their conversations, both those she was a part of and those she overheard. The pieces in this collection, which consider grief, the occasional indignities of living in an aging body, the importance of friendship and community, and the surprising ways we can grow more creative as we grow older, are born of Scoblic’s observations and experiences of life in assisted living. The resulting work is essential for anyone entering the later years of life—or anyone who intends to.

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Lost Without the River

A Memoir

By: Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic

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Lost Without the River

A Memoir

By: Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic

Lost Without the River is an elegantly wrought memoir of resilience, courage, and reinvention. A portrait of nature at its most beautiful and demanding, it is the story of a girl whose family struggled against Depression-era hardship and personal tragedy to carve out a small farm in rural South Dakota. The youngest of seven, Barbara wrestles against the expectations of her family, the strictures of the church, and the limits imposed by a male-dominated culture. Eager for adventure, she leaves the farm—first for the Peace Corps and ultimately for the unknown environs of Manhattan’s Upper East Side—but she never truly escapes. Lost Without the River demonstrates the emotional power that even the smallest place can exert, and the gravitational pull that calls a person back home.

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1631525328

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Lost Without the River

A Memoir

By: Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic

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How to Age Gracefully

Essays About the Art of Living

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Essays About the Art of Living

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How to Age Gracefully

How to Age Gracefully

Lost Without the River

Lost Without the River

Lost Without the River

Lost Without the River

How to Age Gracefully

How to Age Gracefully

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