How I Learned I’m Old by Romney Humphrey is available now in Audiobook Format
Hi again, dear Audiobooks Fans! This is just another short post to let you all know that How I Learned I’m Old by Romney Humphrey has been released this week in audiobook format, almost 1 year after its initial print version. The production is recorded by the author and it is almost 4 hours in duration.
How I Learned I’m Old is a collection of humorous essays embedded with a smattering of serious insights. Together, they tell the tale of what happens when middle age mysteriously departs and old age claims its territory. Baby Boomer women are devouring the book and its topics, finally finding a venue to laugh about their new reality.
Topics like “The New Party Game” (counting wrinkles on other women’s faces), the insulting arrival of chin hairs, and the sudden inability to monitor personal opinions in the presence of strangers have universal appeal. So do chapters about mean girls in their seventies and the emotional legacy of mothers.
The book is divided into sections: “Mind”, “Body”, and “Spirit”. Always with a comical overtone, it also delves into the more important benefits and realizations of the aging process, what friends teach us by example, who we miss most when they’re gone, and which values, in the end, really matter.
Romney Humphrey is a writer and playwright residing in the Pacific Northwest and California. Her plays have been performed in New York, Seattle and California. She has written and produced extensive television, video, print and media projects for clients throughout the country.
She wrote her first book, “The May December Twist”, after hearing several stories about older women and much younger men having highly successful and long-lasting relationships. Also, as someone with a short attention span, she thought it would be a great challenge to see if she could remember, day after day, previous chapters she’d written. (She didn’t. Constantly having to re-read her own book to recall the storyline was exhausting.)
“How I Learned I’m Old” came about because she is now old and had to process the fact. The book is a mostly hilarious and often poignant exploration of the complicated and surprising pre-twilight phase of life.
I will post a review for this audiobook production as soon as I finish my current projects.
Victor Dima
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