One Foot in the Grave, the Other on the Treadmill: Reflections from Over the Hill

Non-Fiction

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Unflinchingly honest, this collection of anecdotes treats the challenges of aging with clarity and wit. Here, the losses are diluted with laughter, the shiver gives way to a shrug, the OMG to an LOL. Readers weary of the “how to” books that promise to reverse the aging process will welcome the dark humor of a self-described narcissist preoccupied with her mortality. From fears of dementia to hearing loss, cosmetic procedures to breast cancer, joint replacement and heart surgery, the octogenarian author mines the comic potential of her humbling experience of the later years. The witty and sometimes poignant essays of this collection may not silence the ticking of the clock or slow the falling sand of the hourglass, but for readers from middle age and beyond, they are bound to resonate.

A retired university professor, a grandmother and an octogenarian, Mary Donaldson-Evans is the author of stories and non-fiction narratives in such online literary magazines as The Lowestoft Chronicle, BoomerLit Magazine, and Persimmon Tree. In 2021 she published Behind the Lines: A Soldier, His Family, and the 10th Mountain Division, a memoir based upon her parents’ correspondence during World War II. Along with her husband Lance and the ghosts of six cats, a chameleon, and four birds, Donaldson-Evans lives in a Pennsylvania farmhouse built in 1730 (a few years before she was born). Get to know her better at her website: www.marydonaldson-evans.com