Life of a Don, life’s stages from a male perspective.
We begin life dependent upon caretakers for nourishment, learning language, and instilling customs. We also inherit a perplexing array of genetically determined capabilities-and limits. The interactions between nurture and nature never stop changing throughout life’s stages. We each make contributions to and demands upon human society. Then, towards the end, we face again becoming dependent upon caretakers.
This is the story of Don Hunter and his wife Jan as they go through this life process. It explores some of the interactions which stand out in the author’s experience during what has been a relatively long life. He wonders: how much of life is driven by our makeup, including hormones; how much is happenstance; and how much of it is by choice? The story concludes with one choice of how life may end!
Inhoudsopgave
Falling in Love at Age Nineteen 1
Courting’s a Pleasure When First it is New 6
Starting Work as Adults 11
A Second Honeymoon 17
Bumps in the Road 25
Starting a Family 29
The Don of Country Dancing 40
Surrogate Parents to Bill and Jill 46
In Vivo or in Vitro? 51
An Education on the Road 55
Squirrelly 60
Dirk Mc Donald 64
Love is Teasing and Love is Pleasing 68
Felix and Fiona 71
The Show’s on the Road! 76
A Revised Program 84
Headed Home to Kentucky 91
The Royal Albert Hall without Tim and Jolanda 95
Meeting Princess Anne with Will and Tilly 105
Camel Award 110
Pearl and Earl 112
TUNA and More Doctors 115
Cancer Rears its Head 118
A Second Chance 127
Where from Here? 130
Calling All Dancers 134
Stages 138
Valley of the Moon 143
Anniversary Dances 150
Wax and Wane 153
Happy Ever After 160
Over de auteur
John Ramsay began his career as an educator, beginning as Dairy Manager and Agriculture Instructor at Warren Wilson College, and ending as Director of Recreation Extension at Berea College. He retreaded, at retirement, to St. Louis, where he and his wife have devoted twenty-four years introducing country dancing to homeschool communities.
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