Second Time Around: Solving a Mid-life Crises

by William E. Jones

Here is the fifth book of a series describing the life of an American veterinarian living in the West. This volume tells about his second marriage after a heart-breaking divorce and bankruptcy during his attempt at publishing books and magazines for horsemen. He suffers from the delusion that the horse business will supplement his third attempt at veterinary practice. Eventually he realizes that his true talent is for writing and his calling is in the area of continuing education rather than academia. His second marriage and the double family that they form bring him the happiness he is looking for, despite hard times. Subsequent volumes describe his long road to success. Will he ever become successful at continuing education and publishing on his own? He has the talent, but does he have the patience and fortitude? Throughout it all, he faces the challenge of changing times, and vows to live longer than his grandmother who made it to 109 years of age. William E Jones writes his life in third person and includes historical information along the way. This is vol. 5 of a series of short books providing an historical peak at how one person coped with changing times in two separate centuries of life.

160 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2016

About the author

William E. Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. He has published the following books: Is It Really So Strange? (2006), Tearoom (2008), Heliogabalus (2009), Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (2009), Killed: Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halsted Plays Himself (2011), Between Artists: Thom Andersen and William E. Jones (2013), and Imitation of Christ, a catalogue for the exhibition he curated at UCLA Hammer Museum in 2013. Recent books include Flesh and the Cosmos (2014) and True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight to Hell (2016). His first novel, I'm Open to Anything, was published in early 2019. Jones's writing has also appeared in periodicals such as Animal Shelter, Area Sneaks, Artforum, Bidoun, Butt, Frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, and The White Review.