This Is It! or Maybe Not!

By Bernice Zakin

This current volume will be the authors thirteenth publication, consisting (hopefully) of more humorous essays, plus some light verses as well.

Bernice lives on Long Island, New York, as well as in Palm Beach, Florida, and can be reached via email at [e-mail].

PS: she gets up early in the morning, so shes always available.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 4, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543455540

Bernice Zakin

Bernice Zakin is a retired interior designer who has always had literary ambitions. She has now written 8 books which include 2 books of light verse, 4 books of fairly humorous essays, one memoir and one travel book. This current publication is an additional collection of humorous essays. Bernice lives on Long Island, New York as well as Palm Beach, Florida and can be reached via email at [e-mail].

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Copyright © 2017 by Bernice Zakin.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017915125

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-5434-5556-4

                Softcover      978-1-5434-5555-7

                eBook         978-1-5434-5554-0

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Rev. date: 10/04/2017

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CONTENTS

2017

A Celebration

A Curious Incident

A Diary Year In The Future

A Nodding Acquaintance

A Sad Time

A Simpler Time

A View From Above

Ageless??

All Choked Up

Bad Bernice

Big Grandma’s Pickles

Can It Happen?

Dictionary Collections

Do Unto Others

Donald Trump Early In His Regime

Endurance

Evoked By A Song

Expeditious

Fitness

Guess What?

Hip Hip!

How Could I Forget His Or Her Name Of My First Grade School Friend?

How To Be A Success And How To Know If You Are

I Have Nothing To Do Tonight

I Voted

I Would Never Ever

I Would Never

Irma

It’s Ridiculous Already

Jared

July 18, 2017

Kissey Kissey

Lose Yourself

Mar-A-Lago

May 5th, 2017

Maybe

Me

Memories Of My Wedding?

Mirror… Mirror

Modern Inventions I Could Not Live Without

My Accident

My Bridge Game

My Eyeballs

My Favorite Occupation On A Lazy Day

My First Crush On A Boy

My Life

My Mother

My Nicknames

My Part In A Play

My Wonderful List

No More

Nonfitness

North Shore Towers

Beauty Shop

Not As Planned

Nst Beauty Shop

Oh Dear What A Sad Memory

Past Tense

Pizza Night

Prexy Trump’s Loss

Putred, Colorful And Aborigine

Right On!

R.i.p.

Sad To Say

Shoes

Silence Grows Louder

Slamming The Door Quietly

Stuck

Stuckaroo

Back

Sweet Tooth

The 13Th

The Author

The Beauty Parlor

The Donald

The Family

The Latest

The Real Me

The Wordsmith

Time Flies

Today

Trump Again

Trump Today

What Can Possibly Be In Your Handbag?

What Have I Learned From My Children

What Is A Secret?

What Really Happened?

What To Do?

Where Did The Summer Go?

Why Not

Why

Words Can Hurt

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DEDICATION

(A repeat from previous books but always relevant)

Always to the memory of my late husband Albert Zakin

To my children Nancy and Jeff, and Barbi and Ken

All my grandchildren: Lizzie and Jon, Carly and Peter, Andy and Dana, David and Susan, Kenny and Alyson and Debbie and Michael

Finally my great grandchildren: 13 in number and they are not to be slighted, but are too numerous to name individually

(I do know their names however!)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

To Elise Alarimo, indispensable and a major help to me throughout the entire production of this book. Too bad there are not several of you and then I would be willing to share your capabilities with others. Right now I want to keep you all to myself. You are absolutely great. Thank you! Thank You!

To Xlibris for doing their job with such dedication once again

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ANOTHER BOOK?

Forgive me as I am a penitent. I told all of you who are the readers of my other 12 books (maybe the three of you) that I would not be writing another book ever again but there are three reasons why I changed my mind.

1. I found some things that I wrote in Florida.

2. I also found some things from the North Shore Towers writing class as well.

3. I am particularly fond of Elise who has done the typing of all my other books in addition to conducting all the business parts of those publications. Therefore I would truly miss having her in my life, and since she would probably dump me if I didn’t continue writing, I am once again doing so!

P.S. Also the most unusual reason that this will really be my last book (if I make it) is because I will be 100 years old on February 10th, 2018.

Wow! I really can’t believe it myself and I’m sure you can all understand why this is really my last book.

So those of you who will now be reading this final bit of writing, I do hope you enjoy it and (perhaps) you’ll think of me in your future. (Mine is iffy!)

PREVIOUS BOOKS WRITTEN

POETRY

From Bad To Verse Or The Verse Is Yet To Come

Cool Verse And Hot Doggeral

OTHER WORDS

If You Take The Train Home Where Do You Put It?

At Last Inanimate Objects Speak Up

Alphabetically Alliterative Collection Of Corney Compositions

Grandma Has A Tale

I Went, I Saw, I Ate

Stuff From Out Of My Head

Stuff I Forgot To Remember

This Book May Be My