In 2022, Amy faced the most challenging decision of her life: stay in the job she knew and loved as a high school English teacher, making a difference in the lives of teens, but continue to risk her relationship with her friends, her family, her health – and her own children? Or leap into the unknown? Amy’s choice resulted in these poems, as she processed her way through grief into joy on the other side. For everyone who knows what it takes to change the world, one baby step at a time – and a reminder to all creatives that changing the world starts first with changing you.

In lively, accessible prose, this book expands the reach and depth of age studies. A review of age studies methods in theory, literature, and practice leads readers to see how their own intersectional identities shape their beliefs about age, aging, and old age. This study asks readers to interrogate the "texts" of menopause, self-help books on aging, and foundational age studies works. In addition to the study of these nonfiction texts, the poetry and prose of Doris Lessing, Lucille Clifton, and Louise Erdrich serve as vehicles for exploring how age relations work, including how they invoke readers into kinships of reciprocal care as othermothers, otherdaughters, and otherelders. The literary chapters examine how gifted storytellers provide enactments, portrayals, and metaphorical uses of age to create transformative potential.

\Travel Becomes Us is the memoir of two very naive and inexperienced nuns who make a journey to Israel and Europe in 1977. Luggage weighs them down and they can not even read the menus; however, they still push on with dauntless enthusiasm. Real difficulties occur when stones are thrown at them in Israel and a conductor tosses them off a street car in Italy. Then outside a deserted lonely train station at one in the morning, they are almost abducted and robbed, only to be saved by their guide book! This is a book to make you laugh at their blunders and decide travel is truly the ultimate learning experience!

The convoy didn’t make it. The armored buses have been overrun. There’s no help coming. But from the ashes of what was lost, a new hope arises. The evacuation center has fallen, but there’s still someone the government may want to rescue. Locked inside a dam, not far from their research facility, are the scientists who could very well be responsible for the outbreak, and might just have the cure. In a race against time, where failing means being left behind in the expanding wasteland, Noah and his friends are faced with an impossible task. One they won’t all survive. But with the help of some unlikely allies, they just might stand a chance. Friends become enemies. Revenge is sought. Hearts are broken. Lives are lost. And the infected remains of mankind are becoming even more dangerous in their desperation to feed. But when the world falls, heroes rise.