Doing It the Hard Way is a book about howdisabled senior citizens can break through the mold of loneliness, alienationand depression. It offers you, the reader, hope and a new way to live andfulfill your lives.Six strangers meet in a rehabilitation/nursingfacility as patients. They share a desire to give up, to remain invalids, towait for death. Yet, influenced by a social worker and a mysterious eighty yearold volunteer the six bond together, engage in writing their autobiographiesand decide that life is worth living after all. They decide that they want tomigrate to Western North Carolina to begin life anew, to live together in acommunal life style for disabled senior citizens who feel the urge to create inprose and poetry.This book is one of hope, breaking away from thebonds of tradition and offers the reader new and challenging paradigms,exciting new life experiences and doors to life's potential riches.You will love David, Britt, Sadie, Ted, Gerald andLee as they explore who they were, are and will become and you will see inthese characters mirrors of your own lives yesterday, today and tomorrow. Thebook is about the elderly, but the theme is for all concerned with life.

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John Spitzberg is a retired special educationteacher, social worker, and critical care paramedic. He's lived in Alaska wherehe taught native children and worked for the State as a child protectionworker. He's lived in Maryland, Florida, Illinois, and Ohio and has traveledextensively in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Canada.His paramedic work with a private ambulance companyin Southeast Florida provided him with valuable experience with the elderly inhospitals, rehabilitation and nursing homes. His experiences with theadministrations and staffs made indelible impressions upon him.Three years ago he moved to Asheville, NorthCarolina where he lives with his two dogs and a beautiful vista .He teachesEnglish to migrant farm workers.

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