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Book Description
Hanging On for Dear Life is a book of mostly humorous stories and sketches about dropping out of big city life and moving to the Ozarks and living by new rules among new people (who turn out to be strangely familiar to everyone). It is about a world where various kinds of gravity pull at the characters--pull them down off the mountains, down off their "high horses," down out of whatever clouds they live in. It is a world where the battles get faught at the bowling alley, the pool table, or the berry patch, and where the secret of life may very well be Bingo. It is also a world full of canoes, motorcycles, ATVs, and 4-wheel drive off-road monstrosities--and cliffs and canyons and caves, and mythic old barns. The book is a sequel to Teetering on the Brink (2003).
About the Author
Gary Weibye grew up in a small town in Minnesota, was educated in small town public schools in Minnesota and Iowa and a small college in Nebraska, and taught English, Speech, and Drama in small town public schools in Iowa and Nebraska. At age 30, he moved to a huge city in Texas and taught high school English in a school system so big that he was allowed to work, undiscovered, for the next 27 years. In all, he participated in nearly four decades of educational "tinkering" that dumbed down the American public school. He worked alongside legions of well-intentioned, talented, highly-skilled educators caught up in a system of perpetual "gee whiz" experimentation. Each term, it seemed, he was able to require less and less of his students, as those students learned to require less and less of themselves. He found himself teaching elementary grammar to Seniors because they could not compose sentences. Meanwhile, he saw more and more classroom space converted to office space as bureaucracy replaced teaching. He retired at age 57 and is now writing about the problem--near a small town in the Ozark Mountains. He calls his affliction "Post-Teaching Stress Syndrome."
Hanging On for Dear Life : none,Gary Weibye,BookSurge Publishing,1594573484,General,Humor,Humor / General
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