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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Older & Wiser: Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Wisdom about Life at a Certain Age
Today’s dynamic seniors will appreciate these 101 stories of inspiration, humor, and wisdom about life at a certain age.
You still feel young at heart despite the ups and downs of getting older. You wouldn’t trade away those wrinkles if it meant giving up the wisdom you have earned. Be amused, inspired, and comforted by these terrific stories
You still feel young at heart despite the ups and downs of getting older. You wouldn’t trade away those wrinkles if it meant giving up the wisdom you have earned. Be amused, inspired, and comforted by these terrific stories
380 pages, Paperback
First published September 30, 2008
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Jack Canfield
1,286 books1,747 followersJack Canfield is an American motivational speaker and author. He is best known as the co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book series, which currently has over 124 titles and 100 million copies in print in over 47 languages. According to USA Today, Canfield and his writing partner, Mark Victor Hansen, were the top-selling authors in the United States in 1997.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
Canfield received a BA in Chinese History from Harvard University and a Masters from University of Massachusetts. He has worked as a teacher, a workshop facilitator, and a psychotherapist.
Canfield is the founder of "Self Esteem Seminars" in Santa Barbara, and "The Foundation for Self Esteem" in Culver City, California. The stated mission of Self Esteem Seminars is to train entrepreneurs, educators, corporate leaders and employees to achieve their personal and professional goals. The focus of The Foundation for Self Esteem is to train social workers, welfare recipients and human resource professionals.
In 1990,he shared with author Mark Victor Hansen his idea for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. After three years, the two had compiled sixty-eight stories.
Canfield has appeared on numerous television shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, Eye to Eye, CNN's Talk Back Live, PBS, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, Larry King Live and the BBC.
Canfield's most recent book, The Success Principles (2005), shares 64 principles that he claims can make people more successful. In 2006, he appeared in the DVD, "The Secret," and shared his insights on the Law of Attraction and tips for achieving success in personal and professional life.
Jack Canfield was born on August 19, 1944, in Fort Worth, TX. He is the son of Elmer and Ellen (a homemaker; maiden name, Taylor). He attended high school at Linsly Military Institute, Wheeling, WV, 1962. He went to college at Harvard University, B.A., 1966; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, M.Ed., 1973. Canfield married Judith Ohlbaum in 1971 (divorced, November 1976); he married Georgia Lee Noble on September 9, 1978 (divorced, December 1999); he married Inga Marie Mahoney on July 4, 2001; children: (first marriage) Oran, David, Kyle, Dania; (second marriage) Christopher Noble. He is a Democrat and a Christian, and his hobbies include tennis, travel, skiing, running, billiards, reading, and guitar.
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February 7, 2025
In 1994, I thought I was Older and Wiser!
I was wrong. I had high blood pressure, was getting close to my fiftieth year - with its concomitant mid-age crisis (and I was having a Whopper) - but I remained in a numb Haldol Daze.
Yes, my Haldol (a wacky variety of neuroleptic drug) Days put me in a dozy daze.
I got it monthly, by butt injection. Right afterwards (usually an hour later, after a morning injection, now back at work), I would bump into walls constantly.
Of course, I cast my dignity to the wind.
When I got back to my humongous (I was a junior manager with a middle management job) cubby-hole, Heather, the gal who supervised my troops - four more able-minded workers - quipped if I was anymore relaxed I'd be asleep!
Or dead, maybe. Alas.
Oh, well.
I was a survivor at heart!
But, alas, a workplace facilitator for con men with my lily-white soul of an Aspie on haldol.
***
But, in 1994 I had to take it in pill form. I was working half days for a while. And this Chicken Soup book along with daily rations - back then, Cogentin, Saltpetre, and a peanut butter sandwich - helped ease my recovery.
(The "saltpetre" - the pill form of the neuroleptic - repressed my rampant Male restlessness.) Later, my medically-prescribed Risperdal removed the need for it, MAJORLY!
Win some - lose some.
But it sure did a big number on my bipolar excitement -
Like using a zany kinda neutron bomb on a gnats' nest.)
***
Chicken Soup books, therefore, were good tools to get this midaged self-dispossessed soul back into the Flow.
They were accordingly at breaks much appreciated by this thirsty and secretively alienated ostrich with a beak fulla subterranean sand (if I went to wide-awake meetings while yet days away from my monthly haldol brain-erasing I'd fall victim to their radioactive fallout in my subconscious).
And much laughed at by them and by me, a haldol-harried manager who, after a shot, once accidently spilt his coffee all over the classified government files on his desk!
They had their modicum of comic release, bless 'em all, my doughty but unsung troops.
You just had to be there to believe it.
My "troops" resented the iron discipline of our unit:
And sat slack-jawed at my outbursts of Aspie hilarity under the weighty yoke of my sealed lips (they didn't do the math at all the oh-so dark implications of our work) at my own expense.
You woulda laffed... Or shaken your head.
Or maybe neither!
As I do now.
***
However, all this proved to be the advent of the Morning Star.
My life had previously been that of but an autistic kid on steroids…
Now it was all stress and angst with the entire chain of senior management on my medicated case!
But, thirty years later -
In 2024 -
It is the true Dawn of Sacrificed Love for me.
My daily household forbearance attests to that…
I’m Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness only More So!
I was wrong. I had high blood pressure, was getting close to my fiftieth year - with its concomitant mid-age crisis (and I was having a Whopper) - but I remained in a numb Haldol Daze.
Yes, my Haldol (a wacky variety of neuroleptic drug) Days put me in a dozy daze.
I got it monthly, by butt injection. Right afterwards (usually an hour later, after a morning injection, now back at work), I would bump into walls constantly.
Of course, I cast my dignity to the wind.
When I got back to my humongous (I was a junior manager with a middle management job) cubby-hole, Heather, the gal who supervised my troops - four more able-minded workers - quipped if I was anymore relaxed I'd be asleep!
Or dead, maybe. Alas.
Oh, well.
I was a survivor at heart!
But, alas, a workplace facilitator for con men with my lily-white soul of an Aspie on haldol.
***
But, in 1994 I had to take it in pill form. I was working half days for a while. And this Chicken Soup book along with daily rations - back then, Cogentin, Saltpetre, and a peanut butter sandwich - helped ease my recovery.
(The "saltpetre" - the pill form of the neuroleptic - repressed my rampant Male restlessness.) Later, my medically-prescribed Risperdal removed the need for it, MAJORLY!
Win some - lose some.
But it sure did a big number on my bipolar excitement -
Like using a zany kinda neutron bomb on a gnats' nest.)
***
Chicken Soup books, therefore, were good tools to get this midaged self-dispossessed soul back into the Flow.
They were accordingly at breaks much appreciated by this thirsty and secretively alienated ostrich with a beak fulla subterranean sand (if I went to wide-awake meetings while yet days away from my monthly haldol brain-erasing I'd fall victim to their radioactive fallout in my subconscious).
And much laughed at by them and by me, a haldol-harried manager who, after a shot, once accidently spilt his coffee all over the classified government files on his desk!
They had their modicum of comic release, bless 'em all, my doughty but unsung troops.
You just had to be there to believe it.
My "troops" resented the iron discipline of our unit:
And sat slack-jawed at my outbursts of Aspie hilarity under the weighty yoke of my sealed lips (they didn't do the math at all the oh-so dark implications of our work) at my own expense.
You woulda laffed... Or shaken your head.
Or maybe neither!
As I do now.
***
However, all this proved to be the advent of the Morning Star.
My life had previously been that of but an autistic kid on steroids…
Now it was all stress and angst with the entire chain of senior management on my medicated case!
But, thirty years later -
In 2024 -
It is the true Dawn of Sacrificed Love for me.
My daily household forbearance attests to that…
I’m Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness only More So!
July 24, 2019
Lots of great stories for anyone interested in the lives of their older family and friends. You will hear stories of love, joy, gratefulness, friendship, sisters and husbands and wives. There are also stories of pets and their owners. The men and women included are sometimes stereotyped (little old lady, frail, feisty, elderly, etc.) rather than be called an adult, older or old woman or man.
Other than than that, this book has stories that are warm, hilarious, joyful and filled with lessons from life.
Other than than that, this book has stories that are warm, hilarious, joyful and filled with lessons from life.
February 27, 2016
I loved the quotes and the stories. I plan to copy some of the quotes into my journal to keep the positive energy from this book fresh in my mind.
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