Dave Adkins

Ramblings (eBook, ePUB)

A Piece of My Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I like the idea of a sentimental-historical approach to articles about Grinnell and other topics. Maybe there is no past or no future, only the present. I have a good memory, which is my main research tool. Share ideas and establish contact with old friends and others. Somehow, I believe the blogs on aging are of some value to others. Feedback confirms that. It gives me something worthwhile to do. Too much leisure can be the booby prize of retirement, as can be too much activity. This is a collection of essays which I have written and arranged in a reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent and moving back in time with the others. The main topic of the articles is Grinnell, Iowa, my hometown, but there are also other subjects discussed. They are a historic, nostalgic treatment of many facets of life there in the 1940s and 1950s including Grinnell College and Grinnell High School sporting events, customs in the neighborhoods back then, and the inevitable topic of aging and life as a septuagenarian. The articles on aging are written with my GHS class of 1957 classmates in mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503564565
• Artikelnr.: 52590413

Autorenporträt

Dave Adkins GHS 1957, B.A. Cornell College '62, M.A. Northeast Missouri State '70, Doctorate Middle Tennessee State '75 - all in HPER. M.A. Iowa State 2004 (Interdepartmental Spanish and Portuguese), M.A. University of Leon (Spanish) 2010. Teacher-coach West Liberty, Iowa, Prairie City, Iowa and Dept. of Defense Schools on Okinawa; Grad assistant instructor and basketball coach - Middle Tennessee State; basketball coach in Lourenzo Marques, Mozambique (Africa) - coached Sporting Club of Lourenzo Marques to National C'ship of Portugal in Luanda, Angola in 1973; State Director of Coaching in Queensland, Australia; Head coach of Hobart Devils in Australian NBL; overseas player agent; adjunct instructor in Spanish at Des Moines Area Community College 2001-2010. "Last lap project" was starting at age sixty and then dedicating the next ten years to reading, writing, traveling, interacting, and studying Spanish attaining near native fluency, which I use daily, and also fluency in Portuguese, which I use frequently. Interacting online with old and new friends along with colleagues in Mexico, Portugal and Mozambique give color to my days. The idea is to keep learning, a day at a time. Retired with wife Geneva, who I met in Lourenzo Marques when she was there with U.S. State Dept. in Corpus Christi, Texas. Geneva was busy doing and completing the ten year Great Books Reading Program designed by Mortimer Adler while I was reading Spanish literature for one decade. Our beloved pet is Holly, Dalmatian-Lab mix. Author of six books - Home Town Memories of Grinnell, Iowa; More Home Town Memories of Grinnell; Memories of Cornell College; Journey in Overseas Basketball; Essays on Old Grinnell; and Gringoismos - Bilingual Essays. (All Available). Also, please check out the interview I did recently with Big Slam, a Portuguese web site: http://bigslam.pt/destaques/dave-adkins-um-americano-muito-mocambicano-por-alexandre-ribeiro-franco