Growing, Older

by Gussow, Joan Dye

• ISBN13: 9781603582926
• ISBN10: 1603582924
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-18
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Pub Co

Summary

Sequel to her previous book, This Organic Life, this literary memoir will be embraced by women curious about aging, gardeners curious about contending with increasingly intense weather, and environmentalists curious about the future. Scattered throughout are urgent suggestions about what growing older on a changing planet will call on all of us to do: learn self-reliance and self-restraint, yield graciously if not always happily to necessity, andsince there is no other choicecome to terms with the insistencies of the natural world.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. ix
The End of My Marriage
The Death of My Husband	p. 3
Six Months Later	p. 8
Coping with Despair	p. 21
Taking the Red Pill	p. 30
What Next?
Moving the World Around	p. 41
Making Change: Just Do It	p. 51
Working, Out	p. 54
Things That Break and Things That Don't	p. 63
Potatoes and Escape	p. 72
If My Parents Had Danced in the Supermarket	p. 82
Watery Lessons	p. 88
Some of the Other Species
How Come?	p. 103
My Life with Butterflies	p. 108
Why Not Try Rice?	p. 122
Muskrats, Dahlias, and an Italian	p. 127
Skunks on the Riverbank	p. 138
The Maple Tree	p. 146
Zucchini (Warning: Contains Recipes)	p. 150
Bees	p. 160
Asparagus	p. 171
Growing Older
Spring	p. 187
A Fate Worse than Death	p. 192
Kicking My Tires	p. 205
Losing It	p. 210
When I Am Ninety-Six	p. 215
My Obituary	p. 223
But Did You Get What You Wanted?	p. 226
Endnotes	p. 233
About the Author	p. 235
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Excerpts

Once in a while, when I have an original thought, I look around and realize Joan said it first.--Michael Pollan, bestselling author of In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and other books