In My Sixties

About the Book

This book began as an ongoing journal after the author retired, sensitively relating her changing perceptions on life, dreams and memories, then, with the occurance of more major events: the death of her son and of her beloved mother after a difficult period of dementia, became a story of the lonely search for a fullfilling sexual relationship. This eventually had surprisingly dramatic results: affairs with three interesting men, the last of whom was an idealistic activist (with one disturbing bi-polar episode of mania), with whom she shared the most ecstatic and transformative sexual merging of either of their lives.

About the Author

Barbara Earnest is a writer and artist who lives near the artist colony of Mendocino. She has a B.A. in Fine Arts and an M.A. in psychology. Previous publications include a novella, “A String Against the Wind” and a book of poetry, “The House on the Other Side of the Mirror”. She has also had short stories and poems in little magazines including “The Provincetown Review," for which she was briefly an associate editor. After working for years in counseling and human services jobs she is now joyfully retired and has time for her own writing and painting.