Carol Orsborn 
Fierce with Age [EPUB ebook] 
Chasing God and Squirrels in Brooklyn

In her breakthrough generational memoir, Boomer expert Carol Orsborn relates the ups and downs of a tumultuous year spent facing, busting, and ultimately triumphing over the stereotypes of growing old. Along the way, she nurtures a love-starved friend through a doomed affair with a younger man, wrestles with the meaning of an exploding fish, and regains her passion for life at the side of her squirrel-crazed dog, Lucky.


The message is as deep as it is engaging. In Carol’s own words,
“Plummet into aging, stare mortality in the eye, surrender everything and what else is there left to fear? The way is perilous, danger on all sides. But we can be part of a generation no longer afraid of age. We are becoming, instead, a generation fierce with age.”

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Wild Space


Part One: Fall

1 Epiphany

2 The Elf

3 Self-Image

4 Just Lucky

5 Fame

6 Deepak Wrote My Book

7 Ten Legs

8 Close Encounters

9 Prayer Shawl


Part Two: Winter

10 Ice Storm 

11 Best Friend

12 Facebook

13 Message from Cancun

14 Maggie’s Yearbook

15 My Special Day

16 Witness to a Life

17 Old friend

18 Last Course

19 Dis-Robed

20 Journey by Flashlight 

21 The Exploding Fish                                                                                                                               

22 Boiled Chicken

23 Snow Booties 

24 Skype 

25 The End of the Story                                                                                                                                    

26 Ordinary Happiness

27 Evolution

28 Budgeting

29 Unhinged

30 At the Borderline

31 Whack-a-Mole

32 Keen Insights

33 Maggie’s Visit

34 Debrief 

35 Withdrawal 

36 If Only

37 Something

38 A Strange Being

39 Slipping Down the Pyramid

40 The Dance


Part Three: Spring

41 The Last Cappuccino

42 Revised Numbers

43 Clarity

44 The Promised Land

45 Smote

46 Giving Notice

47 Pinch My Thigh

48 The Clue

49 Stripped

50 The Portrait

51 The Last Time

52 Reckoning

53 Mea Still Culpa

54 Fierce With Reality

55 The Party Next Door

56 Fiercer Still

57 Freedom Revisited

58 120 Years Old


Part Four: Summer

59 Just Make One Dog Happy

60 Spiritual Training

61 Skele-Elf   

62 Bone Mountain

63 Bear Me Away

64 Flashlight On

65 Forty Years

66 Story Time

67 Our Last Walk in Brooklyn

68 The Alter

69 Ready to Move

70 Turning toward the Future


Carol’s Prayer

Appendices

11 Things I Learned about Aging

Sources

Q&A