Growing Old in America: Notes from a Codger

This book is one man's view of what it means to age in this country and to seek meaning in that process by looking at both the joy and the pain of growing old. There is practical advice for the elderly, there are vignettes of humor and wisdom as well as a prevailing respect and affection for those who are entering or who have been in their golden years.

John Bolinger was born and raised in Indiana, where he attended Ball State University and Purdue University receiving his BA and MA from those schools before teaching French and English for thirty-five years at Morton High School in Hammond. He then moved to Colorado. Now retired, John spends his winters in Pompano Beach, Florida. His published books include, All My Lazy Rivers, and Indiana Childhood, Come on, Fluffy, This Ain't No Ballet, a Novel on Coming of Age, Come September, Journey of High School Teacher, Hodgepodge, a Feast for Mind and Spirit, Mum's the Word: Secrets of a Family, and Growing Old in America: Notes from a Codger. All John's books are available at the Amazon Kindle Store and as paperbacks on Amazon and at Barnes & Noble.