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Home of Stephen King in Bangor, Maine, bet he has some snow today!

Chief of police's car in the ficticious town of Mt. Bell, NC, where a man named Rags was discovered, by this author.

Now for today's insightful entry. (Ha!)

You are never too old to learn, I keep telling myself that. While waiting for Rags, our latest baby to arrive, I started a non-fiction book.

I know I said I was writing Tobies’s Tales, short stories. But I got side tracked. This non-fiction book is teaching me so much, I am enjoying learning. Problem is what I am learning, I do not really like. Have you ever had a strong idea (opinion), you just know you are right, and a little later have a complete change of mind. That is what this book is doing to me.

I still haven’t decided on the Title, and it is about finished. It is a short book concerning old folks like me, and what we should start thinking about to make life easier for us and our family.

I do have some good suggestions for the title, but I could use more to choose from. So far I have:
The decisions of Age, Responsibilities of Age,
OLD: Now what?, Grasping Dignity Gracefully,
Gracefully Grasping Dignity, Taking Charge of Growing Old;
Don't Let Old Age Creep Up on You and Final Decisions.
I think I am leaning toward:
Gracefully Grasping for Dignity (title)
Ideas and Info for the Aged (sub-title)

(Decisions facing the aged) (alt-sub title)

I am not sure I like this sub-title, but I think It needs one. I would like to thank you for some very personal insights and ideas. Many of the thoughts fit right in, or verified some already used. Thanks for your help on a very important book.

Anyone dealing with government ‘legalese’ gets frustrated I think. I just don’t like the way they say in effect, we will take your house and sell it, if you cannot pay your nursing home bill! There is no way you can sugar coat that.
The book does not give legal or financial advice, it does site a couple examples to make a point. Later I will try to write in this blog, about what I have learned.
Thanks for coming this way.
Nite Shipslog
PS:
This one is from …. ALABAMA . . .

A group of Alabama friends went deer hunting and paired off in twos for the day. That night one of the hunters returned alone, staggering under the weight of an eight-point buck.

"Where's Henry?" the others asked.

"Henry had a stroke of some kind. He's a couple of miles back up the trail," the successful hunter replied.

"You left Henry laying out there, and carried the deer back?" they inquired.

"A tough call," nodded the hunter,

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(you have to be a hunter to understand this one...)

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"but I figured no one is going to steal Henry!"