Life of a Don: life's stages from a male perspective

by John Martin Ramsay

Overview

Life of a Don, life's stages from a male perspective.

We begin life dependent upon caretakers for nourishment, learning language, and instilling customs. We also inherit a perplexing array of genetically determined capabilities-and limits. The interactions between nurture and nature never stop changing throughout life's stages. We each make contributions to and demands upon human society. Then, towards the end, we face again becoming dependent upon caretakers.

This is the story of Don Hunter and his wife Jan as they go through this life process. It explores some of the interactions which stand out in the author's experience during what has been a relatively long life. He wonders: how much of life is driven by our makeup, including hormones; how much is happenstance; and how much of it is by choice? The story concludes with one choice of how life may end!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781735550114
Publisher:	ShareInPrint
Publication date:	01/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	164
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Ramsay began his career as an educator, beginning as Dairy Manager and Agriculture Instructor at Warren Wilson College, and ending as Director of Recreation Extension at Berea College. He retreaded, at retirement, to St. Louis, where he and his wife have devoted twenty-four years introducing country dancing to homeschool communities.

Table of Contents

Falling in Love at Age Nineteen 1

Courting's a Pleasure When First it is New 6

Starting Work as Adults 11

A Second Honeymoon 17

Bumps in the Road 25

Starting a Family 29

The Don of Country Dancing 40

Surrogate Parents to Bill and Jill 46

In Vivo or in Vitro? 51

An Education on the Road 55

Squirrelly 60

Dirk McDonald 64

Love is Teasing and Love is Pleasing 68

Felix and Fiona 71

The Show's on the Road! 76

A Revised Program 84

Headed Home to Kentucky 91

The Royal Albert Hall without Tim and Jolanda 95

Meeting Princess Anne with Will and Tilly 105

Camel Award 110

Pearl and Earl 112

TUNA and More Doctors 115

Cancer Rears its Head 118

A Second Chance 127

Where from Here? 130

Calling All Dancers 134

Stages 138

Valley of the Moon 143

Anniversary Dances 150

Wax and Wane 153

Happy Ever After 160