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The prize-winning essayist and Time columnist serves up a humorous survival guide that explores the mysteries of aging for twenty-first century Americans. 35,000 first printing.
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Roger Rosenblatt has won two George Polk Awards, a Peabody, an Emmy, and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Editor-at-large of Time, Inc., he is Long Island University's first University Professor of Writing. Rosenblatt and his wife, Ginny, have three children, and live in Manhattan and Quogue, Long Island.
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A multiple-award-winning essayist/ journalist who is currently editor-at-large at Time, Rosenblatt offers sage bits of advice in this nice, neat package. Our favorite: Whatever you think matters, doesn't.
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It doesn't matter
Whatever you think matters-doesn't. Follow this rule, and it will add decades to your life. It does not matter if you are late, or early; if you are having a bad hair day, or a no hair day; if your boss looks at you cockeyed, or if you are cockeyed; if you don't get that promotion, or if you do. It doesn't matter.
Nobody is thinking about you Yes, I know, you are certain that your friends are becoming your enemies; that your grocer, garbageman, clergyman, sister-in-law, and your dog are all of the opinion that you have put on weight. You are also sure that everyone spends two-thirds of every day commenting on your moral disintegration, denigrating your work, plotting your murder. I promise you: Nobody is thinking about you. They are thinking about themselves-just like you.
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