The Hobo Diaries

by Holly Nadler

Overview

You can idyll for decades on a gorgeous island, comfy, safe and warm, immersed like a Medieval mystic on a life-long spiritual path, and all of a sudden it feels as if you've been dumped on a water slide with a sign that reads: This life is out of your price range, sweetheart! Splash!! . . Where ya gonna live? In the spring of 2018 writer / reporter Holly Nadler gave up her year-round apartment on Martha's Vineyard even as everyone cried out, "Don't do it! You'll never find another one!" And they were right! Follow her around the Vineyard with her dear old thug of a Boston terrier as she lodges in a lilac-walled cottage which is enchanting except for the fact that it has no running water. After that come several seasons with her impossible and dementing 98 year-old mother in Palm Desert CA, a month in Edinburgh where she's banished from a retreat on the Holy Isle, then back on the Vineyard for what she comes to think of as another Summer of Discombobulation. Is it possible to be a hobo and be happy? Well, yeah, as long as you can make people laugh as you write about it. And does it help redefine your spiritual path? Well, sure, because you're a life-long seeker, and you'll never lose sight of the Divine . . . see it? It's just around the next bend in the road. Or the next one?

Product Details

BN ID:	2940185649473
Publisher:	Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	12/06/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Holly Nadler started her writing career at the age of 8 in the San Fernando Valley, when she received her first typewriter and tapped out a few chapters of a Nancy Drew mystery (not knowing you can’t write someone else’s series). As an adult she sold a couple of screenplays as well as scripts for prime-time TV comedies, including Laverne & Shirley and One Day At A Time. A move from LA to the Martha’s Vineyard in 1991 led to 6 published books, notably Haunted Island, Ghosts of Boston Town, and Vineyard Confidential, as well as articles in national magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Lear’s, and Women’s World. She’s spent enough years of travel, particularly in Europe, to learn how to live out of a suitcase. She’s been married to — and divorced from — 3 lovely men and has a grown-up son, Charlie Nadler, professional standup comic like his dad, Marty Nadler. She writes for the MV Times and still putzes around as a vagabond. As she waits for someone to hand her a key to her next permanent home, she recommends, as coping devices, resilience, humor, and meditation. Holly Nadler started her writing career at the age of 8 in the San Fernando Valley, when she received her first typewriter and tapped out a few chapters of a Nancy Drew mystery (not knowing you can’t write someone else’s series). As an adult she sold a couple of screenplays as well as scripts for prime-time TV comedies, including Laverne & Shirley and One Day At A Time. A move from LA to the Martha’s Vineyard in 1991 led to 6 published books, notably Haunted Island, Ghosts of Boston Town, and Vineyard Confidential, as well as articles in national magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Lear’s, and Women’s World. She’s spent enough years of travel, particularly in Europe, to learn how to live out of a suitcase. She’s been married to — and divorced from — 3 lovely men and has a grown-up son, Charlie Nadler, professional standup comic like his dad, Marty Nadler. She writes for the MV Times and still putzes around as a vagabond. As she waits for someone to hand her a key to her next permanent home, she recommends, as coping devices, resilience, humor, and meditation.