A Bitter Sweet Story About an Overweight, Out-Of-Love, Aged Care Worker, Approaching 60, Gripped by Revenge and Faced with the Burning Question – to Do Something About His Life or Decline?
A Bitter Sweet Story About an Overweight, Out-Of-Love, Aged Care Worker, Approaching 60, Gripped by Revenge and Faced with the Burning Question – to Do Something About His Life or Decline?
Love in the Third Age is set in the beautiful present-day Willunga Basin of South Australia at a time in Bruce River’s life when his youthful vitality has drained from his body, and all he is left with is the memory. An overweight, divorced, out-of-love, aged care worker, Bruce is about to turn sixty and coming face-to-face with the burning question—to do or to decline? Bruce’s life is presented as a roller coaster ride of battles with a bad back, impotence, and diminishing career prospects, while at the same time telling the comic stories of his online love life and his nearest and bitterest. Some of his friends are in their third age and going through similar confronting experiences. His clients and mother are in their fourth age and having a tough time. His much younger ex-girlfriend hasn’t even thought about getting older and is bent on revenge against him and won’t take any prisoners. Other characters are equally challenged by aging, but flying brilliantly above the mess. At times, Bruce is torn apart as he must witness the struggles of those aging before his very eyes. He is gripped by the writing on his own wall, battered and bruised by a cunning woman scorned, yet determined to find a way through the rest of his life that will bring purpose, dignity, lasting love and some kind of inner peace. If you’re approaching, experiencing, or even worn down by aging, Love in the Third Age may just turn all that around and give you many moving and funny moments to laugh at both on your own and with others.
Gather 'Round for a Good Story Kick back, relax, and relive some of your favorite memories as hunting buddies Steve Chapman and Don Hicks tell a tale or two from time spent in God's great outdoors. Hit the trail with Steve and Don as they share about Escaping nature's fiery wrath by miraculous means Discovering new interests at midlife and beyond Experiencing the highs and lows of tracking wounded game Depending on God's perfect timing in a perilous situation Enjoying more from hunting than just the thrill of the kill As you enjoy these stories and many more, you'll experience the adventure and adrenaline rush of the hunt, learn tips and techniques to try on your next outing, and gain insight and inspiration you can apply to your spiritual life.
This history celebrates 144 years of the family-owned building and contracting business of E. Chapman & Son Pty Ltd, founded in Brisbane in 1869 and still thriving. Four generations of the Chapman family have devoted their working lives and more to the enterprise. The fortunes of this business have mirrored the ebb and flow of Queensland history. Ebenezer Chapman, Builder and Contractor, arrived at Moreton Bay as a youth of 14 years in 1857, completed an apprenticeship in carpentering and building in Brisbane in the early 1860s, and successfully rode the wave of economic expansion in Queensland from the late 1860s to the late 1880s. He came close to losing everything during the depression years of the 1890s, but during the early 1900s slowly rebuilt the business with the assistance of his son, Reuben. Reuben Chapman was a dynamic personality. In partnership with his father as Ebenezer Chapman & Son from 1923, within two years he had acquired the firm as E. Chapman & Son, and set about establishing the solid foundations of the present business, as well as a separate timber merchandising concern. Reuben weathered the depression years of the 1930s and the impact of World War II, and in 1943 took his sons Eric and Donald into partnership in E. Chapman & Son. In the post-war years Reuben and Eric directed their energies into successfully developing a hardware business, Wilston Builders' Supplies, while Don Chapman took on more of the responsibility for the management of E. Chapman & Son, which was incorporated in 1959. As 'home builders', the firm tapped into the post-war home-building boom of the 1950s and by the 1960s was working with many of Brisbane's leading architectural firms. Since the 1970s the participation of a fourth generation of the family, Don's son Gregory, has seen the enterprise grow from strength to strength, and two subsidiary companies established: Chapman Builders Pty Ltd and Chapman Joiners Pty Ltd. Of particular note is the firm's reputation for fine restoration and conservation work to historic buildings, maintaining Ebenezer Chapman's tradition of 'Work faithfully performed'.
When the reincarnation of the greatest Tibetan lama, Jey Tsong Khapa, returns to his birthplace in Hawaii at age 18 after 16 years studying in the Himalayas, the Chinese secret police Te-Wu set out to kill him. But a beautiful young woman becomes the mistress of the leader of Te-Wu in Hawaii, and thus learns of their plans. She calls an old friend, Kamasami Khan, leader in Hawaii of the secret Free Tibet Warrior Society, and the young lama goes on the lam, as a FTWS member acts as his stunt double in public. Turns out that young woman, Bodhicita Guzman, is the young lama's eternal consort. Soon he decides to don his robes and be himself, exposing he and his consort to Chinese agents. And they are not shy about acting.
To coincide with the 70th anniversary of its present home on Beaumont Street, Oxford, this account traces the history of the Oxford Playhouse from its earliest roots--a production of Agamemnon in 1880--and the founding of the Oxford University Dramatic Society to the rebuilding of Oxford's New Theatre and, eventually, the launch of the Playhouse itself. Recalling actress Jane Ellis' early desire for a venue where she might play decent roles, as well as her efforts to make it happen, the book also celebrates a galaxy of stars who have acted there, including Flora Robson, John Gielgud, Maggie Smith, Ronnie Barker, Judi Dench, and Helena Bonham Carter, and records the first steps of students such as Rowan Atkinson. In addition to chronicling developments in the theater's management and architecture, this comprehensive tribute explores its highbrow and lowbrow programs, its period of prosperity and postwar collapse, and its unique and vital relationship with the University of Oxford.
Above it All is a compilation of more than a dozen first-hand accounts of the lives of everyday soldiers serving in the second world war. With numerous original photos, the book helps to give the foot-soldiers', pilots', and seamen's point-of-view.
Larry Mehau was perhaps the most powerful man in Hawaiʻi since Kamehameha the Great, powerful in every way -- physically, mentally, spiritually, financially, politically. Four Hawaiʻi governors attended his celebration of life. So did the current Honolulu prosecuting attorney, a sitting member of the State Supreme Court and former justice. That's rather amazing for a man who was alleged to be the 'godfather' of crime in Hawaiʻi. Also invited was Don Chapman, the award winning Honolulu writer-editor who was the only journalist Mehau trusted enough -- simply through Chapman's reputation as a straight shooter -- to sit down with and share the exclusive details of his life. Those interviews form the basis of The goodfather, and Chapman adds his own commentary as well as that of Mehau's friends and associates, complemented by more than 100 historical photos. So was this larger-than-life cop-rancher-sumo champion-businessman political kingmaker-presidential driver really Hawaiʻi's criminal godfather? The title offers a hint of the author's assessment"--Page [4] of cover.
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