Books with title You're Only Old Once!

If laughter is the best medicine, then You’re Only Old Once! is a delightful new defense against aging. Anyone who has ever submitted to a battery of medical tests will empathize with Dr. Seuss’s Everyman as we follow him through his checkup with the experts at the Golden Years Clinic. From the initial Eyesight and Solvency Test through all the stops along Stethoscope Row to finally being “properly pilled” and “properly billed,” Dr. Seuss lightens the aches and pains of growing old with his inimitable wit and wisdom. A perfect gift for anyone over 50!From the Hardcover edition.

At every age, the human race searches for identity. From childhood to adulthood, we are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. As we approach and enter the senior years, we again want to find some perspective to what’s happening to us. And when we do, it helps to laugh!You’re Only Old Once is the perfect gift for those “over the hill” who need a smile. This is a collection of lighthearted short stories, reminiscences, and viewpoints of this senior citizen, salted well with scripture, but far from being preachy.Both men and women will find lots of humor, along with serious things with which baby boomers will particularly identify. It’s a resource giving voice to the thoughts, feelings and experiences seniors have, herein finding expression.

At every age, the human race searches for identity. From childhood to adulthood, we are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. As we approach and enter the senior years, we again want to find some perspective to what’s happening to us. And when we do, it helps to laugh! You’re Only Old Once is the perfect gift for those “over the hill” who need a smile. This is a collection of lighthearted short stories, reminiscences, and viewpoints of this senior citizen, salted well with scripture, but far from being preachy. Both men and women will find lots of humor, along with serious things with which baby boomers will particularly identify. It’s a resource giving voice to the thoughts, feelings and experiences seniors have, herein finding expression.

(...)"YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCECHAPTER ONEYou might have thought, if you didn't know, that there was an afternoon tea-party going on, but it wasn't: it was merely all the Goldsborough girls in one room. There were five of them, ranging all the way from Angela, who was twenty-three and looked so much like a doll that by the law of contraries you could be almost sure she had a great deal of common sense, to Isabella, who was fifteen and had large eyes and brown curls and dimples and had to be kept down. In between came Deborah, who was tall and lissom and cream-andgold, Janetta, who was straight and dark and Indian-handsome, and Annice, small and dark and quiet and so much like a Sir Walter Scott engraving, at sixteen, that her sisters made her life a burden about it. There were three boys besides, elsewhere about the place, a father, a mother, a devoted stationary maid and a younger movable one whose personality changed frequently. There was a good deal of live-stock as well, for John, the eldest son, had a passion for family pets which was quite undisturbed by the fact that he was only at home to enjoy them Saturdays and Sundays.(...)".