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For two years Douglas Hergert has been writing a thousand-word anecdotal human-interest column for The Rossmoor News. Rossmoor is an adult community (55 or older), located about 30 minutes east by car from San Francisco, just outside of downtown Walnut Creek. With a population of perhaps 10,000 residents, the community is economically and generationally diverse, but urbane, intelligent, and active, with a high percentage of retired professionals and artists. The Rossmoor setting is a park-like campus complete with redwood groves, lush landscaping, and abundant wildlife, including geese, wild turkeys, and many other resident species. Life at Rossmoor is characterized by the community’s elegant, not to say extravagant, amenities, including two golf courses, three swimming facilities (one indoors), a gym, a library, a movie theater, multiple clubhouses, a restaurant and bar, tennis courts, and a newspaper. The Rossmoor News is published weekly by a paid professional staff, and distributed to every resident. The paper is 60-plus pages long, and allocates space for editorial columns and features, some politically oriented, others more general. In his own column, Hergert writes about topics that happen to catch his interest books, movies, food, travel, nature, current events, places, human-interest anecdotes, or memories from his own life experiences. The tone of his column is generally light, sometimes humorous, with the aim to amuse and inform. This book is a collection of three dozen pieces originally published in the Rossmoor News. Although the writing Hergert does for the News may sometimes convey a distinctly local context, this collection contains a diverse variety of general-interest stories. In these pages you’ll read about the transition from Paris to Rossmoor; the mystery of coq-au-vin; pizza dough as physical therapy; a tale of Christmas in Paris; reflections on bird watching and memory; life and chicken stew in West Africa; Afghanistan in less troubled times; the Ten Commandments and a curious meeting; a travel journal along the California coast; book reviews and movie reviews; life with prosopagnosia (in the title story, “Do I know you?”); how to live with Montaigne; how to make blueberry pancakes; how to use zucchini and arugula in a pasta dish; and how to stuff a turkey. Even if you don’t live at Rossmoor, even if you’re younger than 55 – and even if you’ve never taken a ride in a golf cart – you’ll find a bounty of compelling, amusing, and revealing reading in this collection of personal stories.

Do I Know You? and Other Stories from The Rossmoor News edition by Douglas Hergert Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks

This delightful collection of essays, written for the author's retirement community's weekly newspaper, lives up to the book jacket's promise: "Full of warmth, wisdom, and a bit of gentle philosophy, these are stories that will stay with you - stories to share with your friends." (I purchased both the Kindle and paperback editions. Like the author, I own a Kindle electronic reader but still prefer "paper-and-ink books....a technology that has served so well for so long.") Mr. Hergert shares stories about life (his Peace Corps experiences in pre-war Afghanistan and Senegal, the Rossmoor community where he lives, and his family), about food (lots of delicious recipes and how he discovered them), and about books (reviews and recommendations). Two of my favorite stories are "Writing Rossmoor's Stories" and "The Zen of Pot Washing." In the first, he regrets that the life stories of so many "long-departed family members from the generations immediately before mine" were never written. At the same time, the author emphasizes the importance of passing on our stories to our children and grandchildren and to encourage them "to create stories of their own." (A recurring theme in the works of the eminent psychologist and author, Dr. Sam Keen, is the importance of telling our own story.) In "Zen," Mr. Hergert shares an entertaining account of the summer he spent on Mount Desert Island in Maine when he was 21 years old, recalling how he met some very famous people before he knew who they were. ("There was a cheerful woman named Happy....she was married to someone named Nelson.") This is the kind of book that you can pick up, read a few stories, put it down, and look forward to returning to it later. Except that once I started reading it, I couldn't wait to get to the next story! When I finished the book, I searched for Mr. Hergert's column on [...] but the online version warns that "Not every article that appears in the newspaper is on this site." I guess I'll just have to subscribe to the print version while I wait for the author's next book! A very talented writer.

Product details File Size 383 KB Print Length 172 pages Publication Date April 3, 2011 Sold by  Digital Services LLC Language English ASIN B004V54H18

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Do I Know You? and Other Stories from The Rossmoor News edition by Douglas Hergert Cookbooks Food Wine eBooks Reviews

I live in the same 10,000 resident, active senior adult community as Doug Hergert. Over the past few years, I think I read (and always enjoyed) the essays in this book, when they first became public through our weekly newspaper. In reading them again, I find Doug's writing invariably personal, informative and interesting--it always leaves a good aftertaste, like the food he writes about and obviously loves, and for which he makes me hungry. Readers who are kicking back in their later years especially will appreciate his insightful reflections on the fascinating places he's been, authors whose works touched or influenced us all and delightful encounters he's had with good people often by accident. And I've discovered he's a novelist I've just read his recently published Nothing in Paris and found it an easy companion, even as it lays bare the kinds of struggles we may face when we think our occupational life may have run it's course.
This delightful collection of essays, written for the author's retirement community's weekly newspaper, lives up to the book jacket's promise "Full of warmth, wisdom, and a bit of gentle philosophy, these are stories that will stay with you - stories to share with your friends." (I purchased both the and paperback editions. Like the author, I own a electronic reader but still prefer "paper-and-ink books....a technology that has served so well for so long.") Mr. Hergert shares stories about life (his Peace Corps experiences in pre-war Afghanistan and Senegal, the Rossmoor community where he lives, and his family), about food (lots of delicious recipes and how he discovered them), and about books (reviews and recommendations). Two of my favorite stories are "Writing Rossmoor's Stories" and "The Zen of Pot Washing." In the first, he regrets that the life stories of so many "long-departed family members from the generations immediately before mine" were never written. At the same time, the author emphasizes the importance of passing on our stories to our children and grandchildren and to encourage them "to create stories of their own." (A recurring theme in the works of the eminent psychologist and author, Dr. Sam Keen, is the importance of telling our own story.) In "Zen," Mr. Hergert shares an entertaining account of the summer he spent on Mount Desert Island in Maine when he was 21 years old, recalling how he met some very famous people before he knew who they were. ("There was a cheerful woman named Happy....she was married to someone named Nelson.") This is the kind of book that you can pick up, read a few stories, put it down, and look forward to returning to it later. Except that once I started reading it, I couldn't wait to get to the next story! When I finished the book, I searched for Mr. Hergert's column on [...] but the online version warns that "Not every article that appears in the newspaper is on this site." I guess I'll just have to subscribe to the print version while I wait for the author's next book! A very talented writer.