For many in the baby boomer generation, the retirement years have arrived. For some it's frightening, but for others, it's a fantastic time of exploration, revival, and rejuvenation. Best of all, it's the time when you can finally pursue your dreams, not the dreams others have imposed on you.
In They Call Me Papa, author Ron Turner presents an extraordinary collection of thoughts, musings, and reflections about this unique period of his life and the distinct perspective he has gained about what it means to be alive. With sections titled "Time," "Love," "Men," "God," and "Joy," Turner offers thoughtful and often humorous reflections of a young boomer on the joys and challenges of retirement, aging, grandchildren, mortality, and much more with readable, honest language that penetrates straight into the heart, soul, and mind.
Works such as "Baby Steps," "Baggage," "Fathers and Sons," "My Stomach Hurts," and "Victoria's Secret" are a candid and deeply personal glimpse into a life full of rich memories and keen insight. Turner is a man comfortable in his own skin and unafraid to share his philosophical-and even physical-struggles.
Insightful, poignant, and entertaining, this collection is a must-read for anyone entering into a new phase of life, regardless of age.
About the Author: Ron Turner began writing poetry in 1990. He published his first collection of poems, Man, God & Other Stuff, in 1991, which he updated and published in 1997 as My Father, My Sons, and Me in Between.
Ron's work has appeared in Life's Little Treasure Book on Fathers, by H. Jackson Brown, and in Southern Voices in Every Direction, edited by Margaret Britton Vaughn, poet laureate of Tennessee. He has been a featured reader at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, and his work appeared in the spring 2014 issue of Reflections.
Ron received his law degree and his master's in theological studies from Vanderbilt University. In 2008 he received his PhD in public administration from Tennessee State University. Ron practiced law for more than twenty years in Nashville before becoming an assistant professor of criminal justice at Cumberland University for seven years. He retired in 2013 as the director of religious and volunteer services for the Tennessee Department of Correction.
