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Join the author as he embarks on a year-long body/mind/spirit journey on the road to age 60. Like life itself, the quest is charged with challenges, vexation, hilarity, poignancy, reflection, and sheer absurdity. Discover whether Rick finds hope and meaning at journey's end, or merely a conglomeration of confounding twinges and pricks, macular puckers, and impending sagginess.

For the first time, journalist and historian David Talbot turns inward in this intimate journey through the life-changing year following his stroke, a year that turned his life upside down, and ultimately, saved him. In his signature voice and with powerful storytelling, Talbot examines the physical, emotional, and psychological impact his stroke has had on his identity. Along the way Talbot offers listeners insider stories on the wild early days of internet journalism, insights into the new tech culture, the down and dirty of Hollywood, and much more.

During her own year of transition—a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, the emptying of the nest—Walrond, in the buoyant and luminous style her listeners have come to love, does a deep dive into dimensions of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, connection, adventure, and meaning and purpose. Through conversations with social workers and neurologists, activists and clergy, Walrond satisfies her curiosity about why the dominant culture treats aging as a time of dwindling capacity.

This heart-wrenching story traces the lives of a dementia victim and his caring family as they descend through the devastating journey and ultimate end that is caused by Alzheimer's disease. Using personal experience and that of others, the author explores in graphic detail the pain and confusion of Pat, the victim, and the selfless love of his wife Carol and daughter Mandy. The book is intended to help prepare listeners, who may well become carers, know what to expect and to raise general awareness of a condition that receives little attention compared to its impact on the lives of men and women throughout the world.

It's hard. You struggle with your health. People tell you, “It's your genes.” Or they recommend medicine or surgery as your only options. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has ignored the basics of what it takes to build health and reverse disease, offering nothing more than medical interventions to control such problems, and nothing to reverse them. But no longer!