Gray Love tells stories about the most common of themes: seeking and sometimes finding love. Forty-five men and women, 60 and 94, from diverse backgrounds write about dating, building a relationship or fashioning a life alone. The longing for connection in old age is palpable, with more senior singles than ever searching online and elsewhere.
Gray Love tells stories about the most common of themes: seeking and sometimes finding love. Forty-five men and women, 60 and 94, from diverse backgrounds write about dating, building a relationship or fashioning a life alone. The longing for connection in old age is palpable, with more senior singles than ever searching online and elsewhere.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
NAN BAUER-MAGLINis Professor Emerita at the City University of New York. She has published eight collections (six with coeditors) on topics such as step-families, retirement, feminism, death, dying and choice, and older parenting. Her latest book is Widows’ Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, The First Year, The Long Haul, and Everything In Between. DANIEL E. HOOD is a retired professor of sociology. He taught at several New York Metro area schools for four decades. His latest book is Redemption and Recovery: Parallels of Religion and Science in Addiction Treatment. His memoir essay, “Better Late Than Never,” was recently published in Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40.
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Introduction Prelude Looking at Sixty by Cynthia McVay Part I. To Be or Not To Be In A Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight 1. Not Jane Eyre’s Story by Susan Ostrov Weisser 2. Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman’s Perspective by Phyllis Carito 3. Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind by Nan Bauer-Maglin 4. Confessions of an Online Dater by Neil Stein 5. Advertisement for Myself by Jonathan Ned Katz 6. What Would I Wear? by Laura Broadwell 7. Something from Everyone by Stephanie M. Brown 8. A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility by Elizabeth Locke 9. Rick Redux by Candida B. Korman 10. You Say Potato by Amy Rogers 11. Three Dates by Margie Kaplan 12. Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World by Alice F. Freed 13. In Transition, Not Seeking for Now by Hedva Lewittes 14. “Do You Get It Yet?” by Rett Zabriskie 15. On the Road by Irvin Peckham 16. Dark Clouds and Silver Linings by William Wiesner 17. An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating by Natasha Josefowitz 18. Coping with COVID-19 by Phyllis Bogen 19. It’s Valentine’s Day. So What! by Erica Manfred 20. What’s Sex Got To Do With It? by Judith Ugelow Blak 21. Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance by Linda Wright Moore 22. Passion and Prejudice by Jean Y. Leung Part II. The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships 23. Checking a Different Box by Jan Jacobson 24. Weume by Stephanie Speer and David Levy 25. Begin Again? by Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson 26. The Wizard of Algo by Vincent Valenti 27. Date, Marry, Repeat by Stacey Parkins Millett 28. Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out by Eugene Roth 29. Matchmaker, Matchmaker! by Isabel Hill 30. A Cozy, Crowded Bed by Nan Bauer-Maglin 31. Our Bench and Other Late Life Wonders by Doris Friedensohn and Paul Lauter 32. Love after Seventy and Eighty by Susan O’Malley 33. Where Is This Going? by Barbara Abercrombie 34. Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together by Susan Bickley 35. Parallel Matches by Anonymous 36. Reflections on “Old Love” by Sarah Dunn 37. A Vine of Roses by Mimi Schwartz 38. From Texas to Ohio by Bonnie Fails 39. Till Illness Do Us Part? by Angela Page 40. What Remains Has Just Begun by Tierl Thompson and Idris Walters 41. At Once by Dustin Beall Smith Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
Introduction Prelude Looking at Sixty by Cynthia McVay Part I. To Be or Not To Be In A Relationship: Tales of Humor, Disappointment, Rewards, and Personal Insight 1. Not Jane Eyre’s Story by Susan Ostrov Weisser 2. Discovery through Online Dating Sites: A Woman’s Perspective by Phyllis Carito 3. Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind by Nan Bauer-Maglin 4. Confessions of an Online Dater by Neil Stein 5. Advertisement for Myself by Jonathan Ned Katz 6. What Would I Wear? by Laura Broadwell 7. Something from Everyone by Stephanie M. Brown 8. A (Mostly) Amusing Exercise in Futility by Elizabeth Locke 9. Rick Redux by Candida B. Korman 10. You Say Potato by Amy Rogers 11. Three Dates by Margie Kaplan 12. Dreams and Matches in an Unsure Virtual World by Alice F. Freed 13. In Transition, Not Seeking for Now by Hedva Lewittes 14. “Do You Get It Yet?” by Rett Zabriskie 15. On the Road by Irvin Peckham 16. Dark Clouds and Silver Linings by William Wiesner 17. An Octogenarian’s Adventures in Online Dating by Natasha Josefowitz 18. Coping with COVID-19 by Phyllis Bogen 19. It’s Valentine’s Day. So What! by Erica Manfred 20. What’s Sex Got To Do With It? by Judith Ugelow Blak 21. Gray Love en Noir: African American Women Flying Solo by Choice and by Chance by Linda Wright Moore 22. Passion and Prejudice by Jean Y. Leung Part II. The Complications and Pleasures of Elder Relationships 23. Checking a Different Box by Jan Jacobson 24. Weume by Stephanie Speer and David Levy 25. Begin Again? by Sandi Goldie and Jim Bronson 26. The Wizard of Algo by Vincent Valenti 27. Date, Marry, Repeat by Stacey Parkins Millett 28. Late in the Dating Game: Walked, Homered, Fouled Out by Eugene Roth 29. Matchmaker, Matchmaker! by Isabel Hill 30. A Cozy, Crowded Bed by Nan Bauer-Maglin 31. Our Bench and Other Late Life Wonders by Doris Friedensohn and Paul Lauter 32. Love after Seventy and Eighty by Susan O’Malley 33. Where Is This Going? by Barbara Abercrombie 34. Pleasures and Complications: Living Apart Together by Susan Bickley 35. Parallel Matches by Anonymous 36. Reflections on “Old Love” by Sarah Dunn 37. A Vine of Roses by Mimi Schwartz 38. From Texas to Ohio by Bonnie Fails 39. Till Illness Do Us Part? by Angela Page 40. What Remains Has Just Begun by Tierl Thompson and Idris Walters 41. At Once by Dustin Beall Smith Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors
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