Just Pencil Me In: Your Guide to Moving & Getting Settled After 60 (The Best Half of Life) [Paperback]

Willma Willis Gore (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Best Half of Life | Publication Date: June 1, 2002

While moving is never simple, moving after one has reached the age of 60 often presents its own special challenges. Crammed with indispensable tips from the author’s lifetime of moving experiences—she’s moved eight times just since she turned 70—this book smooths the way to making the reader’s move uncomplicated and enjoyable.

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Insightful and encouraging, this book is bound to become dog-eared and worn with use. -- Betty Fielding, author of The Memory Manual: 10 Simple Things You Can Do to Improve Your Memory After 50

About the Author

Willma Willis Gore has moved home and hearth twenty times in her adult life—six times since she turned seventy. Her articles, essays, profiles and travel pieces have been published in more than seventy-five national and regional journals. Her photographs have illustrated most of her magazine articles, including several covers, and have been used in three of the 19 children’s books that bear her byline. She has taught Write-To-Sell classes, done professional editing, and organized and led writer critique groups for more than 25 years. She is a conference speaker, a member of California Writers Club and San Luis Obispo NightWriters, and leads three critique workshops for that organization.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Linden Publishing (June 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884956211
• ISBN-13: 978-1884956218
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,038,204 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Moving Companion for the Older Set, February 28, 2011

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This review is from: Just Pencil Me In: Your Guide to Moving & Getting Settled After 60 (The Best Half of Life) (Paperback)

This book about moving is geared toward people 60 and up who are making significant moves. This is a time in your life when, for the first time, you're probably not being drawn to a specific location due to a major life experience like a career change. There's a lot of freedom, but there are also plenty of choices to be made, and plenty of options--even some nontraditional living arrangements, like RVs and living with friends, are mentioned.

The author's tone is incredibly encouraging and tongue-in-cheek at times. What could be a stressful time of moving in later life, she looks upon as an adventure, and this optimism can prove infectious. Her downsizing tips are especially helpful since she shares that her current living space (at the book's writing) is 250 square feet!

The text runs about 150 pages in large print, and a significant amount of that is dedicated to telling stories about her moves (there are a lot of 'em!) and other people's moving experiences. The stories help the book feel like a friend to take along on your new journey in life, but, at the same time, take away space for valuable tips. While there are plenty of helpful basic tips, this guide should probably be used in addition to another one, since important information (on home inspections, closings, and the like) isn't included here. I personally would have liked to see more on moving into barrier-free or age-in-place homes and more on home ownership (the book is largely in favor of nontraditional housing arrangements, condos, and senior living). This seems like more of a moving companion--a friend that gives you little tips and hints here and there--than an inclusive moving guide . . . but it's still worth the read. Besides, it's nice to see a book specifically for this age bracket.