Second Age

<p>In <em>Second Age</em> you’re pulled into travel and adventure in the 1930’s.</p><p>    The author floated part way down the Mississippi during the Great Depression with adventure good times and hard times along the way.</p><p>    Then he worked as a bellboy on the President Coolidge to cities and ports in the Far East.</p><p>    <em>Second Age</em> is simply written and you live the author’s adventures when he was a student and as a young man. He and a friend worked their way in a shanty boat part way down the Upper Mississippi. Then he traveled to San Francisco and to the Far East.</p><p>    He re-lived all this while he was writing about it when he was in his late 80's. He re-experienced places and felt how they were. He felt love happiness and fear he knew smells and tastes all over again and he felt sunlight storms cold and damp.    </p><p>    We often forget how to enjoy the simple necessities of life. <em>Second Age</em> takes us to a time when eating oatmeal and raisins having a warm place to be hearing red-winged blackbirds calling meeting new people and seeing new places are enough to touch the heart mind and soul. </p><p>    There is a place in each of us that needs to know the importance of appreciating what you have in your life. </p><p>    The author wrote in a warm and personal manner. His book evokes a time of simpler living and firm values. You experience a joy and a depth in what life has to offer and in what it has to teach.</p>