Thinking It Through: Reflections Past Eighty

by Stanley E. Ely

He started as a journalist in high school, but it was years before writing and becoming a gay man linked up as fundamental aspects of Stanley Ely's life. Now mid-80s, Ely has compiled this insightful collection of essays on topics familiar to friends, travel, army, city life, family, neighborhood--plus events that contributed to his emerging life as a gay man. Step into these short stories and share experiences from a life that has grown richer in human contact alongside loss that inevitably accompanies age. Enlivening the book are 45 photographs of people whose lives have been entwined with Ely's.

205 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2017