The Menstuff® library lists pertinent books on Transition. Each stage of a man's life offers new challenges and requires new responses. The same old answers don't work any more. Explore, expand, learn, grow.
Arata, Ray, Wake Up, Man Up, Step Up: Transforming your
wake-up call into emotional health and happiness. A guidebook
for men, a Support tool for women. How to you find freedom from
outmoded and destructive patterns of behavior that keep you from
achieving success in your roles as partner, father, husband,
leader and friend? Most men aren't aware that the old model
of masculinity is outdated and ineffective in today's culture.
Additionally, the absence of a healthy, functioning model of
masculinity often causes emotional pain that is unbearable,
demanding significant life changes and generating the proverbial
"wake-up call." This book provides an insightful and
practical seven-step Roadmap for how you can transform large or
small crises into opportunities for better relationships,
happiness and success. YourMensJourney.com
ISBN 978-0-9839432-6-6 
Arterburn, Stephen and John Shore Midlife Manual for
Men: Finding significance in the second half. It happens
to everyone fortunate enough to live long enough. Sooner or later,
we all experience that wake-up call that explodes like a bomb in
the gut. Boom! - and then you know it: You really are
middle-aged. People having that moment tend to do a nanosecond
evaluation of their life. And that's usually all it takes for them
to realize that they wish they had done more, lived more, been
more. If you have experienced that moment yourself - or think it
might be a good idea to prepare for when you do - then this is the
right book for you. The authors are both in their early fifties.
That puts them solidly in the middle of the Boomer Horde. They
wrote this book because they want to share with you the
comprehensive, God-inspired understanding that they've come to
about men in midlife. They want to provide you with an owner's
manual, if you will, for the rest of your life. Midlife raises a
lot of questions. Though they know it sounds presumptuous to say
so, they believe this book contains the answers to those
questions. Bethany House Publishers, www.bethanyhouse.com,
2008, ISBN 978-0-7642-0423-4 (hardcover) ;
978-0-7642-0476-0 (Audio CD) 
Ballard, Jack & Phoebe, Beating
the Age Game: Redefining retirement. Shining a new
and optimistic light on the tarnished "golden years", the authors
show how the years between fifty-five and eighty can be your best
- especially if you start thinking about them in your thirties and
forties. Insightful and provocative, this book urges readers of
all ages to reexamine the rest of their lives. Do you feel uneasy
about the future, or have you given it serious
thought? If you are setting out on the retirement road,
do you like what you see? Written in user-friendly
style, this book offers examples of real people who are
successfully using retirement as an opportunity to reinvent
themselves. Could you use a bit of reinventing here and
there? MasterMedia Book, 1993 ISBN 0-942361-79-2
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Bergler, Edmund, The Revolt of the Middle-Aged Man: The
revealing facts about change of life in men over 40. The
revealing facts about "change of life" in men over 40; their
sudden discontent with their wives, jobs, conventional sex
patterns. Do affairs with "understanding" younger women fill a
need or complicate a neurosis? The author explains
those dangerous years when men decide to "get more out of life"
and the erotic games they play with their women. Grosset
& Dunlap, 1957
Byers, Kenneth, Man in Transition: His role as father,
son, friend and lover. A book for all men and women that for
the first time puts the responsbility of relationships where it
belongs - at the feet of the contemporary man. The man who is part
of every single male alive; the man who strives to be understood,
works to be successful and dreams of being a causal part of
meaningful relationships with his family, friends and coworkers.
Ths is today's man. This is everyday, ordinary, man. This is the
man in transition. Journey's Together, 1990 ISBN 0-9619040-3-8
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Cade, Eleanor, Taking Care of Parents Who
Didn't Take Care of You: Making peace with aging parents.
Caring for aging parents is difficult - it's exhausting,
expensive, time-consuming, and underappreciated. And that's in the
best of circumstances. What happens when adult children - raised
in dysfunctional families - are asked to care for their elderly
parents who were neglectful or even abusive? Here is a
compassionate yet realistic guide to facing the emotional and
psychological issues that arise when caring for aging parents.
Learn from others who've been there about moving beyond feelings
of anger, regret, and grief to build healthy, new family dynamics
based on decency and mercy. Hazelden, www.hazelden.org,
2002, ISBN 1-56838-879-9 Buy
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Carnoy, Martin & David, Fathers of a
Certain Age: The joys & problems of middle-aged
fatherhood. As patterns of family and work have changed over
the last few decades, the decision to have children has often been
delayed. Recent Census data show that more and more men in their
forties and fifties are having children - either for the first
time or in second families. In this book and father and son
interview dozens of these fathers, exploring how they feel about
parenting small children in late middle age. As they talk with
fathers from all over the country,and with their wives and
children as well, the authors ask question s at the heart of the
issues. Do older fathers, secure in their careers and ready to
make time for family, make better fathers? Or is parenting,
with the energy and stamina it requires, best left to the
young? Is the threat of an older father dying earlier
in a child's life more or less valid than the treat that a younger
father will be divorced from the child's mother and leave the
family? Is an older father, more stable financially, better
able to provide for a child? Or does he risk trying to
finance his retirement and a college education at he same
time? The answers to these questions - searching,
honest, and sometimes surprising - are combined here with an
examination of the social and economic pressures facing older
fathers, and the personal adjustments that they and their families
must make. The result is an evenhanded assessment of the
challenges and rewards of older fathering that will reassure
anyone contemplating or coping with having children in late middle
age. Faber & Faber, 1995 ISBN 0-571-19859-7 Buy
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Carruthers, Malcolm, Maximizing
Manhood: Beating the Male Menopause. The medical
establishment has long refused to accept that "male menopause" or
"andropause" exists. But over 50 years of scientific evidence
shows that reduced activity of the hormone testosterone can have a
huge effect on a man's health and potency. Around the age of 50,
but sometimes much earlier or later, action man may turn into
inaction man. From being a positive, bullish, and outgoing person,
he can change into a negative, depressed bear with a sore head: a
disaster in both bedroom and boardroom. Based on his experience
with over 1,000 men showing the symptoms of loss of energy, drive
and potency characteristic of andropause, the author has fought
long and hard to have the condition recognized as a true hormone
deficiency state, and to establish that it can be safely and
effectively treated with testosterone HRT for men. Harper
Collins www.HarperCollins.com
1997 Buy
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Chandler, Kurt, Shaving
Lessons: A memoir of father and son.With a mixture
of admiration, amusement, and alarm, the author watches his son
Ben navigate his freshman year of high school. It is a
transitional time for both - father at midlife and son on his way
to becoming a man - which they manage by turns awkward and
graceful. A road trip to Graceland, a rock concert, dirt bike
accidents, baseball tryouts, chauffeuring Ben and friends on a
date, and the fine art of sharing are among the rites of passage
that raise new tensions and bring them closer together. In all
these adventures, the author recalls his own formative years and
relationship with his father. This is a truly honest and moving
memoir that captures perfectly what it means to be a father - and
a son. Chronicle Books, www.chroniclebooks.com
2000, ISBN 0-8118-2360-1 Buy
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Diamond, Jed, Male Menopause, Jed Diamond. Timely and
guaranteed to cause controversy, this book finally demystifies the
"midlife crisis", and gets to the eye-opening truth and deftly
details the "man's story" behind a diminishing sex drive, dropping
hormone production and mood swings. Though middle-aged men are
often the butt of jokes about trading in the "mini-van" for a
speedy MR2 and a HOT Barbie sidekick, men do indeed go through
their own menopause - one that creates hormonal and physiological
changes that link with emotional, social and spiritual
transformations. Some researchers believe that these changes are
just a natural process of getting older or just an excuse to "fool
around". This book tackles this groundbreaking subject (one that
has been debated for the past 20 years by doctors and researchers)
using current research and shares poignant stories from the
thousands of men he has interviewed over the past three decades.
Today, men live to an average of 67 years. However, men from 45 to
60 have the power to live productive lives up until 90 to 120
years. Instead of signaling the beginning of the end, this book
actually signals the beginning of a new era, introducing and
instructing men into their next phase of life. jed@menalive.com
or www.malemenopause.com
Sourcebooks: 1997 Hardcover Buy
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Diamond, Jed. Surviving Male Menopause: A guide for
women and men. Male menopause is a fact of life for millions
of men between the ags of 40 and 55. This book offers guidance to
and tells the stories of those perhaps as affected by male
menopause as men - women. The author uses his research and
experience as a licensed psychotherapist to examine current
medical happenings, then focuses on the personal side of this life
passage. Its effect on relationships and on the individuals
involved is unmistakable. Through the recently rising voices of
the men and women experiencing this change, he seeks to show
couples how they can emerge on the other side happy, healthy and
fulfilled. Both women and men living through this volatile
transition will benefit from understanding (1) How male
menopause differs from the midlife crisis (2) Why men at this
stage want to have affairs. (3) The best methods for treating
erectile dysfunction. (4) Why menopausal men act so much like
adolescent boys. (6) How to survive this journey together.
jed@menalive.com or
www.malemenopause.com
Sourcebooks: 2000 ISBN 1-57051-433-9 Buy
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Geist, Bill, Big
Five-Oh! Facing, fearing and fighting fifty. Who says turning
fifty's nothing to laugh about? Following the trauma of
passing the mid-century mark, the author lies about his age, shops
for a Harley, receives liposuction counseling, finds himself the
oldest guy at a rock concert, buys "relaxed fit" jeans, and damn
near buys a Cadillac! It's enough to make a grown man
cry...so what else is there to do but laugh? Every day eleven
thousand birthday boys and girls hit the Big Five-Oh - that's one
every seven and a half seconds - and here's a gleefully grumpy
glimpse of what's in store when you (or anyone else you know or
anyone you think you know, if you could just remember their
blasted name) cross the Great Age Divide and start the long,
strange trip into the Golden Years. William Morrow & Co,
1997 www.williammorrow.com
Greene, Bob, 50 Year Dash: The
feelings, foibles and fears of being half a century old, Bob
Greene. This book is about all the things that 50 is about -
family, career, body, money, sex, mortality; friendship, regrets,
fears, memories, doubts, dreams; angers, clothes, resentments,
houses, parents, fantasies; children, food, love, bosses, doctors,
rivalry; yearnings, sleep, employees, shoes, medicine, backaches;
hope, cars, lust, embarrassments, heartaches, horizons... It's
about 50 - the place we never really thought about being, even
though we knew we were on our way. Here, at last, we are.
Doubleday 1997 Hardback. (See paperback below.) Buy
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Greene, Bob, 50 Year Dash: The feelings, foibles and
fears of being half a century old. This book is about all the
things that 50 is about - family, career, body, money, sex,
mortality; friendship, regrets, fears, memories, doubts, dreams;
angers, clothes, resentments, houses, parents, fantasies;
children, food, love, bosses, doctors, rivalry; yearnings, sleep,
employees, shoes, medicine, backaches; hope, cars, lust,
embarrassments, heartaches, horizons... It's about 50 - the place
we never really thought about being, even though we knew we were
on our way. Here, at last, we are. Paperback, Doubleday 1998
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Hister, Art, Midlife
Man: A no-so-threatening guide to health and sex for man
at his peak. This book fills a yawning gap in information
about the midlife male. Himself a male in his middle years who is
no stranger to sleepless nights and thinning hair, the author
describes the common physical and psychological changes that occur
as men get older. He examines the changes in sexual functioning
that accompany middle age (and explores the "Viagra Rage" while
he's at it), the critical role that testosterone plays in men, and
its use in hormone replacement therapy. In addition, he looks at
the role of the prostate gland - the organ that fills so many
grown men with dread - and what happens to it as men age. He
discusses the physical, social and spiritual aspects of
maintaining one's vigor and youth and explores ways of preventing
diseases such as heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's. This is
also a good read for any woman trying to understand the midlife
man in her life. GreyStone Books, 1998 ISBN 1-55054-656-2
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Jones, Terry, The Elder Within: The
source of mature masculinity. This is an exploration into the
potential of eldership, the second half of life expression of
mature masculinity. It surveys the way a man can tap this
archetypal energy within himself. The author has developed a
passion for understanding what a healthy and spiritual expressoin
of masculinity would look like. By participating in ritualized
weekend workshops and ongoing men's groups, he found that many men
share a hunger for spiritual and emotional growth and the desire
to make a difference. He believes that the man who embraces
eldership makes himself available to younger men, to the family
and to the community. He has confidence in the fruits of his long
life of experience and wants to see the future by sharing with the
young. This book examines traditional male qualities, such as
protector, while painting a picture of the mature masculine who
energizes himself by using tools of wisdom: meditation,
contemplation, and listening. This book is a must read for both
men and women alike, as it presents an enlightened view of the
elder as a major contributor to society. This is a much needed
resource for empowerment of mature men as well as an enlightened
forecast of the journey many men will travel. Bookpartners,
www.bookpartners.com
2001, ISBN 1-59151-088-8 Buy
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Katz, Jon, Running to the
Mountain: A midlife adventure. The author, a
respected journalist, father, and husband, was turning fifty. His
writing career had taken a dubious turn, his wife had a demanding
career of her own, his duaghter was preparing to leave home for
college, and he had become used to a sedentary lifestyle.
Wonderfully witty and insightful, this book chronicles the
author's hunger for change and his search for renewed purpose and
meaning in his familiar world. Armed with the writings of Thomas
Merton and his two faithful labradors, he trades in his suburban
carpool-driving and escapes to the mountains of upstate New York.
There, as he restores a dilapidated cabin, learns self-reliance in
a lightning storm, shares a bottle of Glenlivet with unexpected
ghosts, and helps a friend prepare for fatherhood, he confronts
his lifelong questions about spirituality, mortality, and his own
self-worth. He ultimately rediscovers a profound appreciation for
his work, his family and the beauty of everyday life - and
provides a glorious lesson for us all. Broadway Books, 2000,
ISBN 0-7679-0498-2 Buy
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Kauth, Bill with Zoe Alowan, We Need Each
Other: Building gift community. Co-create core communities,
safety nets and social inventions to design new cultural
systems. This is part of an emerging “gift culture”
worldview. It seems many people have matured beyond the
“me-first” attitude, feel truly fulfilled and long to
simply give their gift. For 15 years, the author has been
“living the gift” offering training retreats around the
world and always delivering his service first, then inviting a
gift contribution at the end. He trusts his work as a valuable
contribution to people’s lives and invites reciprocity, based
on the value received, ability to pay and interest in supporting
his work in the world. Silver Light Publications, 2011.
ISBN: 978-0-9744890-9-4 
Kennedy, Patrick M., Being a Senior
Citizen: You rnew phase of life with many questions looking
for answers. This is a self-help book with loads of
information for a growing segment of our population. When senior
citizens enter this stage in life there are so many issues: Where
is the money? Where do I live? How is my health? A
senior citizen means just that, an elder and responsible person.
It is not just quitting work and traveling, and it is not just the
changes in sociality, good or bad, but how they adapt to them as
seniors. So many things are disappearing, appearing, and getting
better or getting worse. Senior citizens must settle into what is,
and not to what they think it is, or how they would like it to be.
This book is a guideline to help these individuals adjust to what
is happening in their lives. Red San Publishing, 2011,
ISBN 978-0-9834500-4-7
(See his
column.)
Kennedy, Patrick M., How to Have
Fun with Retirement: The lighter side of retired life.
Fun and retirement are assumed to be one and the same. This is a
collection of light-hearted, yet informative articles about
seniors and retirement living. In addition to the fun articles,
there are tad bits of useful, if not useless information to
enhance the fun with retirement: dreams, fantasies, loose
facts, jokes and elucidations that have come from semiscientific
papers, true stories told by a liar, personal experiences as
logged and blogged on the Internet and passed on as remedies and
antidotes for the human condition and also just plain old made-up
stuff. www.abetterword.com,
Booklocker Publishing, www.booklocker.com,
2008 ISBN 978-1-60145-469-0
(See his
column.)
Kennedy, Paul M., More Fun with
Retirement: A coffee break for seniors. This is
another collection of light-hearted, yet sort of informative,
articles about and for seniors and retirement and follows up on
the previously published book: How to
have fun with Retirement. Included are Deam Fantasies, Loose
Facats, Jokes, true stories by liars as well as made up things,
the personal experiences of experienced seniors, and a little
poetry for a distraction. Booklocker Publishing, www.booklocker.com,
2012 ISBN 978-1-62141-797-2
(See his
column.)
Kirkpatrick, Jane, Homestead: Life seven miles from the
mailbox and eleven miles from pavement. Drawing on her own
real-life experiences, the author tells the dramatic story of how
she and her husband followed their longtime dream, leaving
professional careers behind in order to carve out a life in a
remote river canyon. If you've ever followed your heart (or have
simply want to)...if you've ever wondered about God's plan for
your life...if you've ever found yourself in the midst of a sudden
life change, you'll be touched by the glorious and dramatic
picture of God's faithfulness painted in this book. Multnomah
Books 1997 Buy
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Lockhart, John, The Gay Man's Guide to
Growing Older. Loving Life Over 65! As Steve Hogan and Lee
Hudson wrote in their book, Completely Queer: The Gay and
Lesbian Encyclopedia, "Aging remains one of the least
discussed, least studied, and , probably as a result, least
celebrated aspects of gay...lives." Until now. In this book,
the author has conducted in-depth interveiws with more than 40 gay
men over the age of 65, and he has compiled his findings in this
practical, nonacademic book that details what life for "gay men of
a certain age" is like. Topics covered include money, work, health
care, relationships, sex, and more! This book is a must-read
for any gay man planning for his future, regardless of his current
age. Alyson Publications, www.alyson.com,
2002, ISBN 155583591-0 Buy
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Manton, Jim, The Secret of
Transitions: How to move effortlessly to higher levels of
success. Wherever you are in your career, this book will make
your transition to the next level effortless and immediate. With
user-friendly exercises, you will be able to apply lesson after
exciting lesson to your own life so that your success is NOW
rather than later. The author's own deeply moving personal journey
of transitions is a thread that runs through this book like a
novel you can't put down. He teaches principles with electrifying,
dramatic stories of life and death in the combat zone of Viet Nam,
intriguing matrial arts learning experiences, real-world stories
of personal courage and growth, and unsolvable workplace dilemmas
solved through transitioning techniques all readers can use.
Robert D. Reed Publishers, www.rdrpublishers.com
2008 ISBN 978-1-931741-91-0 
Mc Intyre, Mike, The Kindness of
Strangers: Penniless across America, Berkeley
Books, 1996
Peterson, Andrew, The Next Ten Minutes:
51 Absurdly Simple Ways to Seize the Moment. (To come in
November, 2010)
Roberts, Williams O., Crossing the Soul's
River: A Rite of passage for men. This compelling
book puts the male midlife crisis into its deepest context - the
growth of ourselves as spiritual beings. In so doing it moves well
beyond treatments which focus solely on the psychological
dimensions of this process - though the author details these too
with a sharp insightful eye honed by his own personal experience.
Most helpful is his detailing of various rites of passage designed
to help men navigate through this difficult time. In this the book
is of practical as well as intellectual use. The book is deeply
insightful and altogether illuminating. The Pilgrim Press,
pilgrim@ucc.org, 1998
ISBN 0-8298-1259-8 Buy
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Robinson, John C, Death of a Hero, Birth of the
Soul: Answering the call of midlife. The Hero
Journey from dependent child to responsible adult is a central
theme in all the world's mythologies. At the same time, the
equally compelling journey from youth to middle age has been
largely ignored. The author sets out the correct that oversight in
this book, a study of the spiritual and psychological realities of
male midlife. By blending psychological research, mythology,
poetry, mysticism, and personal experiences, the author weaves a
story that is uniquely personal and speaks to the heart of every
individual excited about the possibilities of entering the second
half of life. Council Oak Books, 1997
Ross, Marilyn & Tom,
Country Bound: Trade your business suit blues for
blue jean dreams. More than a guide to changing careers, this
book is about radically remaking your entire life in small town
U.S.A. Well thought through and jam-packed with specific
resources, helpful information and useful advice. Don't leave your
current lifestyle without it. Upstart Publishing 1997 Buy
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Sacks, Marty, Male Menopaws: The
silent howl. What happens to men when they reach "a certain
age?" A lot! A host of important and sometimes
drastic changes can afflict men in their middle years, including
mental and physical alterations and those oh-so-embarrassing
intimate issues. Thankfully, the whimsical, intrepid gos are here
to help you laugh at these vexations. It offers two dozen funny
and creative solutions to common male menopausal problems. Gaining
weight? Change your
wardrobe! Depressed? Go fishing! Got
wanderlust" Wander! With hilarious drawings of
gentlemen dogs in their prime illustrating every one of these
helpful hints, and a detailed bibliography listing slightly more
sensible resources for dealing with male menopause, this book is
both fun and functional. So unleash your fears and live your life
to the fullest! Ten Speed Press www.tenspeedpress.com
1998 Buy
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Sheehy, Gail, Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New
Map of Men's Lives. One of the most intimate and candid
accounts of what men's lives are really like today, revealing
their doubts, their passions, their hunger for renewal. Given
their increasingly unpredictable and elongated lives, men need to
reinvent themselves and expand the ways they demonstrate their
manliness. This is a concise guide for men (and the women in their
lives) as they confront the major issues of each passage: How do
you make change work for you? Where can you find new passion and
purpose? How can you be the father you wish your father was? What
can you do to exercise influence as you grow older? How you can
deal successfully with "male menopause"? (See 1997, Jed Diamond,
Male Menopause.) What strategies can defeat depression? How
can you survive a job change or downsizing? What keeps a man
young? When men and women face the same passage with different
needs and directions, how does marriage survive? Through stories
of men who are redirecting their lives, receive information as
well as inspiration. Random House Hardcover. www.randomhouse.com
1998 Buy
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Sheehy, Gail, Understanding Men's
Passages: Discovering the new map of men's lives.
This book guides contemporary men through the turbulent challenges
and surprising pleasures that begin at forty. As a man crosses
that threshold, he is bound to ask midlife's most troubling
question: Now what? Work anxieties, concerns over
sexual potency, marital and family stress, issues of power, all
take on new urgency as men contemplate the decades ahead. But the
author reveals in this major new book, midlife is precisely the
period when men are more likely to reinvent themselves and become
masters of their fate. Here she offers all men, and the women in
their lives, an essential guide to self-discovery. Hundreds of
bold, imaginative men - celebrities as well as everyday heroes -
share here their most intimate desires, deepest fears, and fervent
cravings for renewal. Decade by decade, she uncovers the real
issues facing men today: finding new passion and purpose to
invigorate the second half of their lives, dealing with
"MANopause", surviving job change, enjoying post-nesting zest,
defeating depression and learning what keeps a man young.
Informative and inspiring, grounded in fact and full of
fascinating life stories, this is a landmark book. Ballantine
www.randomhouse.com 1999
ISBN 0-345-40690-7 Buy
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Solimini, Cheryl, The Not-So-Silent Passage: How to manage your
man's menopause without committing manslaughter. Thanks to
Gail Sheehy's The Silent Passage, many baby-boomer women
are armed with a feeling of control over their own menopausal
destiny. Hot flashes? You can always turn on the fan. Night
sweats? Kick off the sheets. Mood swings? Enjoy the ride. But how
do you cope when your husband of 25 years announces he's quit his
job as a junk-bond trader to run a fishing charter out of Key
West? Comes home in a toupee that looks like a shag-carpet
remnant? By now, you may want to trade in your 50-year-old for two
25s (if he hasn't already beaten you to it). It's clear that women
suffer from men's middle age, so that's why they need to know as
much as they can about their baby-boomer male. Once they
understand that he is going through his own "change of life", they
can be more sympathetic, and prepare for the inevitable. But with
quotes like "You can think of maleness as a type of birth defect",
it's not very supportive and it's very clear that she has never
"run with the wolves". They probably would have turned on her. Too
bad. I would recommend buying Jed Diamond's book, Male
Menopause (see the review in 1997) and hold out for Gail
Sheehy's soon to be released book for men on our life passages.
Gibbs-Smith www.gibbs-smith.com
1998 Buy
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Sprager, Hart, The Sound of the Earth: A man's mid-life
passage and spiritual awakening. By the time the author was
fifty, he had changed professions more than nine times: actor,
filmmaker, story consultant and writer, foreign service officer,
university professor, producer/director of television commercials,
columnist for a Texas newspaper, commentator for National Public
Radio, actor (the second time around), and full-time vagabond.
After returning to the U.S. from India (the setting of this book),
he did a yearlong retreat under the guidance of his Tibetan
Meditation Master, Gen Lamrimpa. It was a year during which he
remained silent, sat on his pillow, and meditated. He calls it
"the most productive year of my life." North Star, 1995,
ISBN 1-880823-11-X Buy
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Vickers, Joanne & Barbara Thomas, Men
on Midlife: eighteen men talk about making new choices in careers,
relationships, and what really matters in the second half of
life. By successfully slaying dragons, saving princesses and
conquering the elements, most men feel they ought to be well on
the path to glory by midlife. Responding to the pain of such
unrealistic expectations, these men are increasingly discarding
these mythic roles in order to create their own satisfying life
stories. In showing how ordinary men have found creative answers
to midlife dilemmas, this book offers support, insight and
encouragement to all men who are searching for direction. Crossing
Press, 1996
Wall, Kathleen & Gary Ferguson, Rites of
Passage: Celebrating life's changes. Every major
transition in our lives - be it marriage, high-school graduation,
the loss of a parent or spouse, or the last child leaving home -
brings with it opportunities for growth and self-actualization,
for repositioning ourselves in the world. This book illustrates
the five-part cycle of growth we all experience in our lives.
Letting go, wandering, polarities, new beginnings and rooting.
These five stages serve as catalysts for inner movement, allowing
us to avoid getting "stuck" along the way. Personal ritual - the
focus of this book, allows us to use the energy help within the
anxiety of change to nourish the new person that is forever
struggling to be born. This enriching and practical guide shows us
how to create personal rituals to navigate the challenges and
changes of life with grace. From a couple's weekend ceremony of
recommitment and a family's weekly "talking circle" to a "letting
go" party at the time of divorce, and a tree planted in memory of
a loved one, here are simple yet profound ways to seize the
opportunities presented by times of transition and to discover
healthier ways of being. Beyond Words, 1998 ISBN 1-885223-76-5
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