From Over the Hill

By Gay Howard

A combination of short essay and poetry geared toward the population that's past puberty... way past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Educational Publisher/Biblio Publishing
• Release date: Apr 22, 2013
• ISBN: 9781622490783

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From Over the Hill

By Gay Dell-Howard

Published by Biblio Publishing at Smashwords

ISBN:

Copyright © 2013 Gay Dell-Howard

Cover photo Serendipity by Pati Shambaugh,

taken on the Atlantic Ocean coastline near Rye, NH.

Gay Dell-Howard

C/o Picking Up The Pieces

911 City Park Ave.

Columbus, Ohio 43206

Phone: [phone]

Cell: 614-204-5364

Email: [e-mail]

Table of Contents

Blushing

Dreaming Myths

Serendipity

Eldermoxie

Moxie-Mom

Seventeen/Seventy

Geezer-Patrol

To the Geezer-Patrol

Half-Way Home

What I Really Want

You Ask

Clippings

I Will Fly South

Idea Lost Upon Awakening…

A Wall on the Wild Side

On Random-ness and Patterns

Broken Hearts

Burning Bridges

Insomnia

Crab-Apple Days

Remember the Rose

BLUSHING

Blushing is involuntary

So says Webster's Dictionary

It's triggered by our modesty,

Embarrassment, or shame you see

I can attest without a doubt

That is what blushing's all about

No matter how darn hard you try

The only way to stop is die.

BLUSHING

I think it was Mark Twain who said; Humans are the only animal that blushes…or needs to.

In this human, the 'blushing gene', being recessive, was not passed down to my sons and daughters. They seem to think that blushing