Winging It

<p>MOST people when they're four years away from retirement start downsizing. Not Pauline and Bill-they upsized. In August 2008 they moved from a 1600-squarefoot urban condo to a 3000-square-foot split-level house on a five-acre hobby farm forty miles east. Pauline committed to a one-hour commute to work and the couple took on a mortgage. Their friends thought they were crazy. No wonder. What Pauline and Bill knew about farm life could have been written on the head of a pin. But they did it anyway. They had to.</p><p><br></p><p>Bill had dementia and Pauline knew she would need help down the road. They moved to be close to their daughter and her young family who also lived on a farm. And that's when the fun began as two aging city slickers learned how to bale hay collect eggs from a chicken coop and clean out horse stalls-skills they never dreamed they would develop in retirement.</p><p><br></p><p>With rollicking humour a sense of adventure and a degree of poignancy Winging It describes Pauline Buck's ten years as a newbie farmer as she navigates her challenging role as a dementia caregiver and seeks purpose in the third act of her life.</p><p><br></p><p>---------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br></p><p>This book will help so many to nurture others through grief but also enable their self-esteem through their own bouts of humour and uncertainty disappointment and resolve.</p><p><br></p><p>- Rick Antonson author; former president and CEO Tourism Vancouver </p><p><br></p><p>A portion of proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to the Alzheimer Society of B.C.</p>