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I'm a retired attorney who lived most of his life in California. After retirement I decided I wanted to write so I moved to a writers' town, Boston, where I lived for three years. I wrote about fifteen short stories and a memoir. In 2010 I moved to Paris, where I lived and wrote for a year. Since 2012 I have lived in St. Marys, Georgia, a small town on the southeast coast. I have written eight books, including two collections of short stories, three memoirs, a novel and two books on legal topics. I am currently working on my second novel. I have four children and five grandchildren, all living in California.

This Second Edition of the author's popular memoir and guide for living a fulfilling retirement adds significant new material on dealing with the challenges of retirement based on the author's experiences, new interviews and research since the first edition was published. It emphasizes the emotional challenges to retirement, including loneliness, feelings of not being useful, loss of loved ones, relating to loved ones, making new friends, finding a passion, travel and other ways to make retirement the best time of your life. Boyd Lemon shows you how he secured the best time of his life in Retirement and how you can do it too. Learn how to take life more slowly, notice and revel in the beauty of the world around you, most important, how to find and pursue your passion and live fully. Married or single, discover how to avoid the loneliness or episodic depression that many retirees suffer from. Too much leisure time is often an expressway to boredom, frustration and unhappiness. The author tells you how to avoid this unhappiness through a few steps that anyone can take.

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Category: Biographies & Memoirs; Health, Fitness & Dieting

Three Marriages-Three Divorces. Did I Just Marry the Wrong Women? Eleven years after my last divorce I moved to Boston at age 66, after a lifetime in California, to live platonically with a 23-year-old female college student. I still thought my marriages failed because I had married the wrong women--crazy women. Finally, I realized that I must have had some role in destroying these marriages. Encouraged by my roommate, I embark on a journey to uncover my role. My attitudes about marriage had been profoundly influenced by my place on the cusp between the moralistic generation...and the next generation that embraced "sex, drugs and rock n roll" and greater independence and equality for women. I was also deeply troubled by my choice of a career that seemed only to help the rich get richer. These issues propelled me to avoid dealing with my marriages. My memoir is a story of these marriages and divorces and uncovering my role through intense introspection and the writing process.

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Category: Biographies & Memoirs; Parenting & Relationships

After a lifetime in southern California and three years in Boston, the author at age 69 retires from the practice of law and moves to Paris to eat, walk and write. He describes in vivid detail the challenges of learning French; dealing with the French bureaucracies, public and private; facing the charm and smugness of the Parisians; as well as the joys of experiencing the cuisine, neighborhoods, art and history of the world's most beautiful, vibrant city. After nearly a year he travels to rural northern Tuscany and revels in its scenic beautify, food and serenity until a shocking experience send him home to California.

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Category: Travel

There's a new kind of hero in town––Brad, multifaceted, talented, flawed, lonely and powerful. Brad, the family man who sits for hours with his comatose sister in a San Francisco hospital. Brad, damaged and abandoned by his mother, ignored by his father. Brad, still waiting for the best seller his agent believes he deserves. Brad, the man who drives away his disappointment, pain and horror with the cocaine he desires so much. Brad, the prisoner of Myanmar. Welcome to Brad's world. In Boyd Lemon's epic, contemporary new novel we see a different side of Lemon, a side that we have waited so long to see. Where will Boyd take Brad?

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Category: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

This little book of short stories was inspired by the author's life in Ventura, California and Boston, Massachusetts from 2003 through 2007. The stories explore the relationships that make our lives, our failures, and successes and our human frailties, faults and strengths. "Some Things Are Better Left Unknown," published originally by Scars Publications in its literary magazine, "Down in the Dirt," explores the relationship between a young woman and her father, which is threatened by a stranger. "Lucky" shows the anguish of a young man whose girlfriend has left him and the advice of his father. "Flawed," also first published in the Scars Publications magazine tells of deceit and mystery in a relationship between a young woman and an older man. "Adapting" is about a father-son relationship and the father's efforts to bridge the generation gap. "What He Wished For," also first published in the Scars Publications magazine, shows what happened when a middle class father of three adult children comes into a lot of money. "My Dream" is a story of the sport/business of thoroughbred horse racing. "Dreams" tells of the protagonist's pursuit of a beautiful woman and what he learns from it. "Growing Up" explores the relationship of a single father raising his teenaged daughter. "Meant To Be" shows what it takes sometimes for a reluctant woman to realize she is really in love. "Matthew's Angel" follows the struggles of a depressed, blocked writer. "Amends" is a story of a German soldier during World War Two, who 50 years later returns to the people where he was stationed to make amends. "Unexpected Love" explores what an older man learns taking care of a baby girl.

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Category: Literature & Fiction