OLD AGE AIN’T FOR WIMPS
IF YOU CAN LAUGH AT OLD AGE, YOU CAN LIVE WITH IT
The author of OLD AGE AIN’T FOR WIMPS, jack-of-all-trades Marv Rubinstein, has led an exciting life — attorney, engineer, author, professor and business executive. He was for many years C.E.O. of Selectrons, Ltd., a small but international company. He was an adjunct Professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, teaching a course called Quixotic English dealing with the nooks and crannies of the American language. In his thirties, he spent three years in Israel working for the Ministry of Defense.
Marv has lived in California, London, Tel Aviv and Bangkok. As International Sales Manager of his company, he has spent time in over 70 countries and 49 American states. His spiritual home and favorite residence is New York City, though he spends winter months in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. He has friends all over the globe.
Since selling his engineering business, Marv has concentrated on writing eight books covering disparate subjects — humor; engineering; life in early Israel; the American language; a novel entitled Womanizer; a cook book (with his wife Chie as co-author) using tea as an ingredient and this book on aging. You will find humor in all of them.
This author was 86 years old when he started this book. Now 88 verging on 89, he shares with you the experience of growing old, with emphasis on doctors, medicine, philosophy and humor galore. If you can laugh at old age, you can live with it. He considers himself healthy for his age — no high blood pressure; no diabetes; no clogged heart arteries; no strokes and no serious cancer. Still, the concatenation of minor non-life-threatening ailments do take their toll. When he dies and friends ask the cause, his wife can truthfully reply, “Nothing serious.”
If you are over 50, you may or may not like this book, but you will certainly relate to it. For the younger set — what a great gift for Mom, Dad and grandparents!
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