Be Careful What You Wish For: The Saga of Sow's Ear Farm Ebook
How Not to Spend Your Golden Years: The Myth of Peaceful Country Living
by Dennis Slifer
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About the Ebook
While still employed, I longed for retirement in a rural refuge. Now, with the benefit of hindsight, I can say following your bliss can become following your folly. Beware—the lure of a home in the country is a strong siren’s song. Slick magazine articles and catalogues to the contrary, setting yourself up in a country lifestyle may mean you are setting yourself up for disappointment and only trading one type of stress for another.
Optimists might advise this experience is some sort of blessing in disguise—one of those inscrutable lessons the universe throws at us. To them I offer the remark made by Winston Churchill, who after losing an election and being told that it was a blessing in disguise, said “Damned good disguise.”
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Home & Garden
- Version Fixed-layout ebook, 154 pgs
- Publish Date: Feb 03, 2012
- Last Edit Jul 04, 2015
- Language English
- Keywords golden years, baby boomers, retiring to the country, rural living, country living, southern, lifestyle, homesteading
About the Creator
Dennis Slifer is a writer, photographer, and retired environmental scientist. His diverse interests are reflected in this sample of his books with Blurb: Ambling Around the Atacama and the Altiplano Art on the Rocks: The Best of the Quest My People Collection Quay's Tale: A Memoir of Monkey Boy Little Big Dog: A Memoir of Mamasita Brothers: The Story of Angus and Linus Critters: A Tribute to Compassion Sideway Cider Squeezing Marking Change: Historic Rock Art in the Southwest Curios: Collecting Eclectic This is It!: Strange Signs, Social Oddities The Country Life: Be Careful What You Wish For Shadow Catcher Window Seat: The View From Above Adventures of the Old Stik Wonderfully Odd Bigger is Always Better Haste Ye Back: Exploring the Scottish Highlands and Isles Wandering the West: 2005 to 2021 (17 volumes) Elder Trucks: America's Love of Old Trucks (4 volumes) Dropping Far Out: How Counterculture Shaped my Life Friends in Low Places: A Caver's Memoir South of the Border Dobar Dan