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    Those Were the Days: Another Humor Filled Chronicle from the 'Travels with Susie' Series
    Those Were the Days: Another Humor Filled Chronicle from the 'Travels with Susie' Series
    Those Were the Days: Another Humor Filled Chronicle from the 'Travels with Susie' Series
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    Those Were the Days: Another Humor Filled Chronicle from the 'Travels with Susie' Series

    By Gordon Grindstaff

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    Those were the days' is the third book in the `Travels with Susie' series. Like the first two, this book is a collection of essays, some of which first saw the light of day as the author's newspaper columns. The topics will appeal to almost everyone; containing a bit of fact, a little geography, some enjoyable history and of course, travel stories with a brand of quirky humor not found anywhere else. The topics will appeal to almost everyone beginning with a bit of nostalgia. We'll go back in time for a couple of tales, then learn how to cope with a 60 year old teenage love interest and finally, more of what living with Susie is really like.
    In the travel tales, we will ride along with Susie and the author as they spend a winter in Texas working on a National Wildlife Refuge, devote a wonderful summer to a National Historic Site in Washington State's San Juan Islands and enjoy with them their experiences in many of the other favorite places the author and his wife have visited.
    For those of you approaching retirement, there is a section that the author dubbed `Getting old; not for Sissies.' Here are stories with light hearted looks at the aging process that will strike a chord of familiarity and stories that guarantee both laughter and tears. Learn right along with the author what needs to be done when debilitating illness strikes.
    We all find ourselves in this sometimes frustrating but mostly enjoyable reality that we call life. For lovers of literary humor, `Those were the days' will reinforce the belief that there's never ending humor to be found in almost every situation we find ourselves in. All you have to do is hang in there.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateNov 3, 2011
    ISBN9781467039963
    Those Were the Days: Another Humor Filled Chronicle from the 'Travels with Susie' Series
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    Gordon Grindstaff

    Gordon Grindstaff was raised in a small town in Southern Indiana during the middle of the twentieth century. He is a retired Information Technology Consultant who worked around the movers and shakers of the corporate world for thirty five years. This occupation provided ample opportunities to observe the silliness that sometimes passes as big business while also allowing him to hone his sense of humor along the way. His wife, Susie, served as the Director of a workshop for mentally handicapped adults before retirement. The years spent in the company of the associates in the workshop taught both Gordon and Susie the real meaning of their existence as well as grounding them in the lessons learned from the realities of life. Gordon and Susie retired shortly after the turn of the century, sold practically everything they owned and set out in their RV to see the sights of North America. Ten Years and two grandchildren later, they have begun to slow down but they haven't seen it all yet so they're not quite ready to turn in their truck keys. Their travels led to a journal which quickly became a regular newspaper column published weekly in four newspapers in two countries. His quirky, one of a kind humor also appears occasionally in at least 3 other publications. Gordon's writings are sometimes hilarious, sometimes sentimental, once in a while nostalgic and always entertaining. His first book, `Travels with Susie', was published in 2006 and chronicles the adventures of the couple as they learned to make their way about the country in an RV. `Good Times and Bad' was published in 2008 and continued the Travels with Susie theme as well as adding a look at the Nostalgia of growing up in Indiana. Gordon and Susie are currently making plans to volunteer in the Florida State Park System for the winter of 2011 - 2012. And as always, after that, who knows? God willing, we'll all find out.

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