Francine Falk-Allen

No Spring Chicken

Stories and Advice from a Wild Handicapper on Aging and Disability

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Produktbeschreibung

A companion to Falk-Allen's memoir Not a Poster Child, this handbook deftly and humorously shares tips and stories about disability-oriented travel, how to "be with" and adapt to a handicapped or aging person, and simple assistive health care we can employ in order to live our best and longest lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: She Writes Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2021
• Englisch, Unbestimmt
• Abmessung: 214mm x 138mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781647421205
• ISBN-10: 1647421209
• Artikelnr.: 59966552

Autorenporträt

Francine Falk-Allen was born in Los Angeles and has lived nearly all of her life in Northern California. A former art major with a BA in managerial accounting who ran her own business for thirty-three years, she has always craved creative outlets. This has taken the form of singing and recording with various groups, painting, and writing songs, poetry, and essays, some of which have been published. Falk-Allen facilitates Polio Survivors of Marin County and Just Write Marin County (a Meetup writing group), and is a volunteer member of the San Rafael City ADA Accessibility Committee. Her first book, Not a Poster Child: Living Well with a Disability: A Memoir has been included on several national outlet'ss' lists of best books of 2018, including Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed, and PopSugar, and received a gold medal from Living Now Book Awards for Inspiring Memoir - Female and a silver medal from Sarton Women's Book Awards for memoir. She was also named one of "25 Women Making a Difference in 2019" by Conversations Magazine. She loves the outdoors, gardening, pool exercise, her sweet, peculiar old cat, spending time with her husband and good friends, strong British tea, and a little champagne now and then. Francine lives in San Rafael, California.