Christmastime is hard on Invisible Grandparents, especially those of us who are experiencing hard times due to the economy. Please accept my story of Virtual Christmas Giving (Forthcoming Harlequin Press 2012 in Pat’s blog) of how our family transcended the commercialism of the holiday season as my gift to you. May your season be wonder-filled! Pat 12_7_11
Pat Hanson
Pat Hanson, Ph.D. 66, is a veteran health educator, public speaker and writer. Currently she teaches courses on ‘Aging Positively’ and ‘Putting Your Passion into Print’ at California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB)’s Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI). She is proud to report she’s a healthy survivor of the ‘if-it-feels-good-do-it’ sixties and the ‘AID’ies,’ a feminist whose been married three times and calls herself bi-coastal. A ‘recovering Catholic,’ she is deeply involved in the New Thought spirituality. She has two sons, her firstborn who inspired this book. Her second graduated a U.S. Military Academy and is now home in America after three tours in the Middle East. She lives in Monterey California with her ‘significant equal’ and third husband of seventeen years.
She has been putting the final touches on a chronology of her colorful life.
If the Tubs Could Talk, a short story that appeared in Monterey Shorts by Fiction Writters of the Monterey Peninsula and was aired many times by NPR’s KAZU.FM.
Listen to this story, read by the author.
Hopelessly Heterosexual?, a novel and screenplay subtitled “The Tenure Trap” about Dr. Jackie Wilkinson who returns from New York in 1990 to teach at the California party school where she learned about sex, drugs and rock n’ roll in the ‘60’s.
Behind the Maserati Tent, about her very short career as a limo driving in Pebble Beach.
Columns for the new magazine Crone: Women Coming of Age (www.cronemagazine.com), Vol. 1 – “Does Everything Change?”; Vol. 2 – “MANNERS, MORES & MASTURBATION: 1899-2009″; Vol. 3 – “SEXUAL CONCERNS? … Find a therapist? Heck No, Hire a Coach!”; and Vol. 4 – Pioneer of Sex Education Marion Hamburg.
Stillness, My Final Frontier: Ten Days at Meditation Boot Camp.