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| The story of job loss and rebuilding...at middle age |
A Book for Our Times: Anchor
Stevens' award-winning story about the experience of falling unexpectedly into poverty at mid-life and what his character,
Jimbo, does about it. Winner of the 2009 book-length annual Eaton Literary award. Check out this review at Vogel's Bookshelf, Midwest Book Review, June 2012.
| Anchor on the move. |
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| What does he do when the bottom falls out? |
Born: New York City
Early years: Lived in Astoria, then northern
New Jersey.
Education: Attended distinguished art and design school, received
BFA
Professional career: Began as a young art director, currently own small media
strategy, marketing and design communications firm. Busy freelancing and consulting, about to start-up some new on-line enterprises.
Avocations: Animals, photography, painting, travel
About "Pipedream: Life at Middle Age:" This story is fiction
grounded in personal experience. It chronicles a year in the life of Jimbo, beginning when he loses his 4th job in less than
a decade, just as the economic bubble is about to pop. The story documents his fall from the middle class and what he discovers
in the experience of impoverishment as it slowly, then quickly, envelops him--
Purchase: You can purchase this publication at Createspace.
It is also available on Amazon.
Contact: eMail Anchor Stevens
Sketches drawn by Anchor Stevens to help get at what has occurred.
These are not included in the publication of this book, but may show up in a subsequent edition.
| Endless job searches on-line. |
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| "Nothing to show for it." |
| Fruitless Phone Interviews |
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| "Nothing to Show for It." |
| Utter Exhaustion |
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| "Nothing to Show for It" |
| Jimbo's transplanted tree |
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| "Nothing to show for it." |
| Daily walk through woods... |
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| Getting some peace with his 2 dogs |
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Friday, September 9, 2011
9.11.11 Remembrance
As we await the day of 9.11.11 and all that will be recalled on this occasion, we are
all too aware that our country is in peril in other perhaps even more dangerous ways: Unemployment at well over 9%, not counting
millions who are considered "too old" to work, and who for whatever reason have given up looking; our immediate
debt is estimated to be 14+ TRILLION dollars, not including unfunded mandates which according to some estimates run as high
as 50-75 TRILLION dollars, and our debt is owned by China and other countries, who now can exercise unfathomable influence
over our essential way of life. Wait til they show up to buy our farms, our prize real-estate, our software and hardware companies,
our arms-building companies-- we will suddenly one day grasp what up to now is not fully understood or appreciated and there
will be hell to pay.
4:48 pm edt
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