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In the early 1980s Harkins sent the piece, with other poems, to various magazines and poetry publishers, without any immediate success. Eventually it was published in a small anthology in 1999. He later said: "I believe a copy of 'Remember Me' was lying around in some publishers/poetry magazine office way back, someone picked it up and after ...
Celebrate a friend, husband, or parent turning 40 with these meaningful, positive and funny birthday wishes and messages you can write in their birthday card. Celebrate a friend, husband, or ...
Turning 40 could be worse for Gen Zers than it is for millennials. I'm a little too close to 40 for comfort, and I was hoping this story would make me feel better. It did, to some extent, in that ...
Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book Hymns and Other Stray Verses (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version.
Life Begins at Forty is a 1932 American self-help book by Walter B. Pitkin.Written during a time of rapid increase in life expectancy (at the time of its publication American life expectancy at birth was around 60 and climbing fast, from being only at age 40 fifty years before), [1] it was very popular and influential.
On the precipice of turning 40, somewhere halfway through this marathon of a life, I want to exhume what I feel I’ve abandoned and lost. I want to recall what’s been washed away by the pull of ...
The poem is written in the voice of an old woman in a nursing home who is reflecting upon her life. Crabbit is Scots for "bad-tempered" or "grumpy". The poem appeared in the Nursing Mirror in December 1972 without attribution. Phyllis McCormack explained in a letter to the journal that she wrote the poem in 1966 for her hospital newsletter. [4]
I gave birth to my fourth child weeks after turning 40. My older three kids were independent enough, and life was fun again. People really judged my decision, but it was the best choice for me.