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"... I don't want to go to law school, or pursue another advanced degree, or change my career, which would be funny if I had a career to begin with. I might do all of those things come the next season, but this is summer and I'm about to turn 50 and suddenly I have the makings of a gym in my basement and it's clear to me. I want to be Batman." --The Dark Knight of the Soul Some people age well. Others, not so much. When it came to turning 50, though, Pacific Northwest columnist Chuck Sigars realized it was an ideal time to start over. From his popular newspaper columns for Beacon Publishing, "50 Is The New Nothing" explores the possibilities, not the limitations, of aging. With his trademark humor, Sigars describes his adventures losing 100 pounds, learning to count calories and walk for miles, along with his discovery of exactly how many push-ups he could do (three). "50 Is The New Nothing" could also be a primer on aging gracelessly, as Sigars explores the pitalls and signposts on the road to old guy status, including which shirts should never be tucked in and how to avoid talking like a teenager. Divided into two sections, "Finding Fifty" and "Family Matters," in the latter part of the book Sigars turns his attention to the ones that matter most, as he prepares for his daughter's wedding. Along the way, he takes a crosscountry road trip and finds out that home is where the heart is, as long as you know where home is and who is waiting for you there. Ultimately this is a story of discovery, told through the eyes of an ordinary guy who was surprised as anyone to hit the big Five-Oh. As he points out in the preface, this generation of Late Boomers might be the least prepared of any cohort for senior citizenhood. "We were never going to get old," he writes in the introduction. "We were going to coast, drafting like Dennis Christopher in 'Breaking Away' (1976) behind the preceding generations and particularly technology, getting younger even as the years passed, picking up speed by virtue of being born on the cusp of a new era and reaching adolescence in an angst-free time." What happens, of course, is what everyone experiences eventually, but told through the aging eyes of a man who decides to start over in the middle, just for the heck of it, and surprises himself, and us, with what he finds.
About the Author: Chuck Sigars was born in 1958 in southern California and grew up in Arizona before moving to the Pacific Northwest in 1983. Beginning his creative career as an actor (with a brief detour as a stand-up comedian), he began writing plays, including "Take My Life," which won the New City Theater Festival (Seattle) in 1985. He began writing his newspaper column, "Chuck's World," in 2001 and continues to the present, along with multiple essays for the Seattle Times and various other publications. He is the author of two collections of essays, "The World According to Chuck" (2 editions) and "Mr. Chuck Explains It All: Four Seasons In Snohomish County." Chuck Sigars has been married since 1983 to Julie Kae Sigars, a popular Northwest soprano, educator and Presbyterian minister. He has 2 children, Beth, a musician/educator in Austin, Texas, and John, age 21, of Mukilteo, WA.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781466214293
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Starting over in the middle
  • Width: 133 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1466214295
  • Publisher Date: 10 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 231 gr

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