Time Share: A Remembered Past, An Imagined Future, Revised Edition

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What happens to the socially challenged as they move into extreme age? Follow one elderly woman, somewhere on the autism spectrum, as she wades out of extreme grief into the unknown---from stability to discomfort to confusion to understanding, and, finally, comfort and clarity with the end of life.

This Hybrid memoir explores growing old in America, the "living" options that are available to the elderly, and the challenges to be faced. The exploration proceeds against the backdrop of a journey from timeshare to timeshare--once owned with the writer's now deceased husband and her only real touchstones to the life they had. In short order, the stability these properties represent is compromised by yet another devastating turn for which she is unprepared. And so she begins a process of divesting herself of elements of the past, girding herself for something to come. Throughout the memoir and the imagined, fictional future, the text is amplified by embedded poetry and footnotes in a companion collection of prose pieces entitled Time Share Addendum: An Archive of Memories. In this second volume, the author uses invented prose o explore the potential others have to contribute to her understanding and provide guidance for her later years.

This hybrid memoir is a travelogue, a treatise on growing up and growing old as a female in America, and the perils of social "distance". It is a book for the aging. Because we all age, it is a book for any adult who wonders, "what next?"

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CATEGORY: Prose and Poetry
DATE: July 17, 2021
TAGS: Biography, Prose and Poetry
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Prose and Poetry

TIME SHARE

A Remembered Past, An Imagined Future

Walt Disney must have had a seriously conflicted childhood. The mothers in his movies are dead or absent, the fathers cannot protect their children from the world's bogeypersons, and the stepmothers are uniformly evil. Since the first song I remember is "Someday My Prince Will Come," and the first movie I remember is Cinderella, what hope did I have....

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TIME SHARE: ADDENDUM

An Archive of Memories

The young man in the bed seemed to have aged before his wife's eyes, his skin insubstantial and puffy, his hair flattened to his head from fever, the dehydration he was experiencing taking the firmness of the flesh of his arms and legs. He was too weak to rise for any reason, and she began to understand he might not leave this bed....

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“A sublime female gumshoe elevates this sober, measured whodunit…”
– Kirkus Reviews

Nancy Buell - Central Oregon Author and Poet

ABOUT NANCY BUELL

Nancy Atherton Buell was born in Oregon, but spent over half of her life in Alaska with her husband of 50 years and a succession of springer spaniels. She lived in Barrow, Anchorage, Juneau and Kenai, and is now retired to Oregon. Having found her creative voice and the time to use it, she writes every day in her studio.

Nancy has been an educator at every level, from public school to university.
After she retired, she made and sold jewelry, and processed large quantities of fish. Occasionally wrote an educational product. And then, one day, found the bankers box containing all of her youthful poetry and prose. Since then, in her new writing and jewelry studio, she writes, edits, and waits for the next poem to visit.

Key to all of Nancy’s work, and no less in the poetry, is a profound sense of “place,” and how that influences human life. All of her prose vividly describes not only Alaska, but the other places in the nation and in Mexico and Canada to which the characters travel.

WORKS

NOVELS
2024 - The Radish Hole
2023 - AWOL
2022 - Distant Early Warning
2021 - Just Politics

OTHER WORKS
2021 - Time Share Addendum
2020 - Time Share

POETRY
2024 - Ways in the Labyrinth