250 Marvelous Thoughts For Women Dating After 60

Single women 60+ have different fears than single men of the same age, when it comes to finding themselves now dating and experiencing new relationships. Single men at this age seem more fragile and sensitive. When starting to date at 60+, there are moments of fear that a woman will laugh at their clumsiness, awkwardness or make them feel small, inferior or insecure. Single women dating at this age have more basic concerns. We're more afraid a man will pass gas on us during lovemaking and totally ruin the course of the evening. A gentle reminder. This is my sole opinion based on personal experience. (smile)Dating after 60. After 60 what? 60 years of children, husbands, careers? 60 years of joy, sorrow, loneliness? A random, happenstance meeting in November 2017, while interviewing French language instructors abroad who could commit to assisting me with online conversational French lessons, prompted me to write this book. I was seeking a virtual pen pal and French tutor. He, apparently, was seeking a life mate, under the guise of offering French lessons. And he's not even French! He's an ex-pat Netherlander who is fluent in French! To make a short story, shorter, I fell in love with this aforementioned Dutchman a.k.a. French tutor who lives in France. We have a cross-Atlantic relationship. I live in the U.S. He lives in the E.U. It's been interesting. And precisely what I need for this time in my life. Women Dating After 60+. I am in the throws of precisely this moment of life...in real-time. And there are lots of us. Some of us have eased into the dating and relationship game and are thriving. Others of us have not been as successful, and have either given up on trying or opted to no longer remain open to the possibilities. When you suddenly (or not so suddenly) find yourself single and alone in your 60+ years time of life, whether it be by death of a spouse/significant other, or divorce of a spouse/significant other, or perhaps never married/selectively single; it can be unnerving or empowering depending on how you're wired. It's not an easy time. Just the thought of now dating at this juncture of our lives, is enough to make our stomachs churn. At 60+ the frustrations of loving, dating and learning a new human being...a grown, been there before human being, is a monumental challenge. By this age, everyone's locked into his or her own world. The patterns are not easily disrupted or merged. By the time you reach our age, 60+, we have decided how far to the left or to the right we are willing to lean. A small decision now requires a formal tribunal. At this point in our lives most of us just want to be fluid with our emotions, intuitive, sincere, creative, and passionate. We want to live a life that is beautiful in its simplicity, with marginal uncertainty and absolutely, no drama. Striving daily, for mostly sunshine and blue skies. Dating when you're 60+ is no walk in the park. In our upper ages (I love this term), our lovely minds can occasionally get the best of us. Surrounding ourselves with family, friends and partners with good intentions will yield our highest survival rate. And when we choose to put ourselves out there and embrace the idea of romance again, our watermark should be a high one. Not an impossible one. Simply a high one with a little extra nurturing and attention focused on our heart. I wrote this tiny book of warm encouragement for all of my single, 60+, female friends, family and readers who may have accidently or intentionally, put the brakes on romance. Divorced. Widowed. Selectively Single. We are in this exquisitely amazing time of our life together. Embrace it! Young love and life expectations can be blind and impulsive. Seasoned love and life expectations is realistic and wears bifocals. Our life belongs to us...we get to do it the way we want to do it. #HappyDating60+

Hollywood in the 1960s walked a tightrope between boom and bust. Yet the decade spawned many of the greatest films ever made, saw the advent of the spy thriller, the revival of science fiction and horror, and represented the Golden Era of the 70mm roadshow. Blockbusters like Lawrence of Arabia and The Sound of Music shared marquees with low-budget hits such as Lilies of the Field and Easy Rider. New stars emerged--Steve McQueen, Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand, Sean Connery, Faye Dunaway, Clint Eastwood and Dustin Hoffman. Veteran directors like Billy Wilder and William Wyler were joined by the post-war generation of Robert Aldrich and Stanley Kramer, and the new wave of Stanley Kubrick and John Schlesinger. This book explores a period when filmmakers embraced revolutionary attitudes to sexuality, violence and racism, and produced a bewildering list of critically acclaimed classics that remain audience favorites.

Training a powerful lens on the microscopic wonders of the universe, hundreds of photos, both exquisite and strange, accompany this startling exposé of a secret world invisibly evolving around us for billions of years. Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Nature & Environment Microfossils—the most abundant, ancient, and easily accessible of Earth's fossils—are also the most important. Their ubiquity is such that every person on the planet touches or uses them every single day, and yet few of us even realize they exist. Despite being the sole witnesses of 3 billion years of evolutionary history, these diminutive fungi, plants, and animals are themselves invisible to the eye. In this microscopic bestiary, prominent geologist, paleontologist, and scholar Patrick De Wever lifts the veil on their mysterious world. Marvelous Microfossils lays out the basics of what microfossils are before moving on to the history, tools, and methods of investigating them. The author describes the applications of their study, both practical and sublime. Microfossils, he explains, are indispensable in age-dating and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, which guide enormous investments in the oil, gas, and mining industries. De Wever shares surprising stories of how microfossils made the Chunnel possible and have unmasked perpetrators in jewel heists and murder investigations. He also reveals that microfossils created the stunning white cliffs on the north coast of France, graced the tables of the Medici family, and represent our best hope for discovering life on the exoplanets at the outer edges of our solar system. Describing the many strange and beautiful groups of known microfossils in detail, De Wever combines lyrical prose with hundreds of arresting color images, from delicate nineteenth-century drawings of phytoplankton drafted by Ernst Haeckel, the "father of ecology," to cutting-edge scanning electron microscope photographs of billion-year-old acritarchs. De Wever's ode to the invisible world around us allows readers to peer directly into a minute microcosm with massive implications, even traversing eons to show us how life arose on Earth.

Amazing Asheville by Lan Sluder is the new guidebook to Asheville and the beautiful North Carolina Mountains. It candidly covers all the best places to stay, eat and explore in Asheville's exciting Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods, and elsewhere in the North Carolina mountains. In more than 150,000 words, it also covers the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Biltmore House and Biltmore Estate and the hundreds of thousands of acres of national and state forests in Western North Carolina. This is THE guide that gives you the ins and outs of enjoying the mountains and saving money on your Asheville and North Carolina mountains vacation. Written by an Asheville native and award-winning author of more than a dozen books on travel and retirement, Amazing Asheville provides readable, easy-to-use information on Asheville's many B&Bs, mountain lodges, resorts and vacation cabins. It tells you where to find great food and drink -- from bistros where locals go to five-star splurge places. It explains where to go for the most amazing experiences for your vacation. Amazing Asheville doesn't just stick to the city of Asheville. It covers many interesting small towns and villages in the mountains around Asheville. It details where to go for the best outdoor activities in the Blue Ridge Mountains -- hiking, scenic drives, camping, wildlife spotting, birding, river rafting, boating, gem mining, fishing, rock climbing, exploring waterfalls and the backcountry, and more. Whether your interest is outdoor adventures, art and crafts, clubbing and nightlife, music and culture, architecture, outdoor adventures or just having fun in the highest, coolest mountains and most-visited national parks in the East, Amazing Asheville is the guide for you.

California has some of the most distinctive and unique geology in the United States. It is the only state with all three types of plate boundaries, an extraordinary history of earthquakes and volcanoes, and many rocks and minerals found nowhere else. The Golden State includes both the highest and lowest points in the continental US and practically every conceivable geological feature known. This book discusses not only the important geologic features of each region in California but also the complex geologic four-dimensional puzzle of how California was assembled, beginning over two billion years ago. The author provides an up-to-date and authoritative review of the geology and geomorphology of each geologic province, as well as recent revelations of the tectonic history of California’s past. There are separate chapters on some of California’s distinctive geologic resources, including gold, oil, water, coastlines, and fossils. An introductory section describes basic rock and mineral types and fundamental aspects of plate tectonics, so that students and other readers can make sense of the bizarre, wild, and crazy jigsaw puzzle that is California's geological history. In this second edition, the book has an entirely new final section, “California’s Environmental Hazards and Challenges,” with new chapters on California’s landslides, air and water pollution, renewable energy, and the future of climate change in California. Key Features Thoroughly updates the market-leading textbook on California's geology Is written by an author with 30 years of teaching geology and leading field trips in California Introduces California's unique geological history Covers fundamentals of geology Characterizes specific geographical regions of California Describes major geological resources of California Summarizes the paleontology of California Reviews the likely impact of climate change on California's environment Related Titles Hollocher, K. A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field (ISBN 978-11380-2630-8) Glavovic, B. et al. Climate Change and the Coast: Building Resilient Communities (ISBN 978-04154-6487-1)

The life of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, generally known to the world as Heliogabalus, is as yet shrouded in impenetrable mystery. The picture we have of the reign is that of an imperial orgy—sacrilegious, necromantic, and obscene. The boy Emperor, who reigned from his fourteenth to his eighteenth year, is depicted amongst that crowd of tyrants who held the throne of Imperial Rome, with the help of the praetorian army, as one of the most tyrannical, certainly as the most debased. The present writer started this study with the view that the Syrian boy-Emperor was, in all probability, what his biographers have painted him, and what all other writers have accepted as being a substantially correct account of the absence of mind, will, policy, and authority which he was supposed to have betrayed, along with other even more reprehensible characteristics.