Age is a Laughing Matter: How to Laugh Through the Second Half of Your Life [Mass Market Paperback]

Helen Heightsman Gordon (Author), Helen H. Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

Humor and Light Verse, celebrating life over the age of forty. Includes original twists on proverbs, parodies, limericks, and prose pieces about playfully welcoming the second half of life.

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About the Author

Helen Heightsman Gordon, Ed. D., began her poetic career writing light verse for her high school newspaper, then polished her techniques with writers' critique groups and writers' conferences. She began publishing in magazines and newspapers while still a young mother. During her years as a professor of English, she revised and published some of her earlier work, won an occasional contest, and authored five textbooks as well as a historical novel. Many of her humorous prose pieces appeared in local and regional publications. She wrote many of her limericks for the amusement of friends, but several have been subsequently published or won prizes.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 65 pages
• Publisher: Anacade International (September 1, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 0966619218
• ISBN-13: 978-0966619218
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,607,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm a curious hybrid -- a pan-Celtic mutt with ancestors from England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and France. Raised in Salt Lake City with lovable moderate Mormons on my mother's side and lovable agnostic-atheist-Catholics on my father's side. Couldn't afford college until age 25, when a small inheritance from a maiden aunt enabled me to pay baby-sitters while I completed an English major at the University of Utah. My husband moved our family (3 young kids) to Sacramento, CA, where I finished the B.A. and M.A. degrees at California State University, Sacramento. That's getting education the hard way, but worth it!
Another move took the family to the Great Central Valley, where I taught English at Porterville College for 9 years and Bakersfield College 21 years.
Have written and published poetry, humor, professional articles, opinion pieces, five textbooks for developmental college students, and a memoirs of my uncle's POW experiences in Guam and Japan. My love of Shakespeare led me to a fresh interpretation of his work, THE SECRET LOVE STORY IN SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS.
My historical novel, VOICE OF THE VANQUISHED, placed first in the historical fiction category of the Hollywood Book Fest 2007. In 2011, the historical novel MALINALLI OF THE FIFTH SUN earned an Editor's Choice Award and a Rising Star Award from iUniverse.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Laughing at Ourselves, January 11, 2000

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This review is from: Age is a Laughing Matter: How to Laugh Through the Second Half of Your Life (Mass Market Paperback)

Helen's ability to capture our precious aging moments in humour along with her sensitively delivered and thought-provoking commentaries make her writing very enjoyable to read. She can help us observe our aging from a less cynical perspective and appreciate these moments that pass by us as gifts of which we can be eternally grateful.