You Might Be A Geezer

About the Book

There is an article in the AARP (American Association of Retired People) Constitution that states "Thou shalt not writeth about Geezers or maketh sporteth of them unless thou are one thyself."  [King James Version] This is a book about Geezers written from the perspective of a Geezer.

I used to laught at Geezers now I am one so I laugh with them.  Geezers are hard to define.  They come in all sizes and shapes and surprisingly all ages.

Geezer usually refers to an old man but in this book it may not be.  A Geezer is an older person who dresses funny, acts zany, laughs at unusual things and thinks heavy metal is a large tractor or bulldozer.  Their medicine and doctor bills are higher than mortgage payments.

Geezers use phrases like "that used to be and now it is" and "before it was, it was".  They meet at the barbershop to gasconade and gripe about the government.  They are out of the mainstream and that is okay.  They remember the stress of the work world.  When I think of Geezers I think of Burt, Al, Floyd and Charlie who ued to hang around Mayberry and drive Barney Fife crazy.

Read and learn to love Geezers.  There is a tsunami of Baby Boomers just beginning to crash onto the beach at AARPville/Geezerville.  You may be one some day.  So pull up an easy chair, get a glass of iced tea with lemon and sit a spell with me as I take a humorous look at those of us who are older than the posted speed limit.

About the Author

Dr. Larry Vandeventer was born at home in Ghost Hollow, Indiana, 13.2 lustrums ago and grew up on a farm near Calvertville.  A lustrum is five years.  His education began in a two-room country school in Calvertville, Indiana, with two teachers teaching eight grades.  Eventually,  he attained a Ph.D. from Indiana State University. 

He and Wanda have been married more than nine lustrums and they have two married, professional daughters: TW who is married to Keith and TM who is married to Todd and they have one child, a perfect and well-advanced four-year old preemie granddaughter whose life is chronicled in his third book, There Is A Booger In There And Other Little Audrey Stories.  Another granddaughter is expected in March 2006.  Hooray!  It is our hope that she knows about calendars and time lines.

His work life has been varied.  He has worked as a farm hand, a service station attendant, a custodian while in college, in banking, served in U.S. Navy and as a full-time minister for a decade.

            Since then he has been a public school teacher, high school assistant principal and later the principal and assistant superintendent.  Currently he is a  professor of graduate and post-graduate education, newspaper columnist and author.  He has published a newspaper column in four Indiana newspapers.  Currently his column appears in the Spencer Evening World. Geezers is his fourth book.  The first was Bumps In The Road, then Life In The Past Lane, followed by Audrey and now You Might Be A Geezer.  Who said nothing good could come out of hills of Highland Township?  The jury is still out on that one.