My Year With Wendy

One Saturday morning, a woman packs a suitcase and walks out the doorleaving behind a husband of 35 years. So begins the clock on a year likeno other in his first 60. Handed a life do-over, everything is on the tableas he considers overhauling his old self and plotting a new future. Thisnew, old bachelor decides to wade into the dating pool of other lonelymiddle-agers and gets up to speed on the ways of modern love. He meets a woman named Wendy on a dating site for the 55+ crowd. It isan unlikely union of opposites, a romance between a cautious and sensiblecollege professor and a quirky, adventurous woman. She comes with herown unique story of loneliness and searching. With her husband in declinefrom Alzheimer s, the author finds himself navigating a unique menage atrois: a married man waiting for divorce and a married woman who is inlove with two men, old and new, herself a widow in waiting. My Year with Wendy is a story about second loves and second acts, thefelicities of finding romance late in life, and learning to move on withoutforgetting. Told with humor and poignancy, the author shares his uniqueyear with observations on starting over, the vagaries of aging, the joy andcomplexities of togetherness in middle age, and the nature of love itself. And from the devastation of Alzheimer s is revealed the tenacity of thehuman heart for love. By year s end, the author will come to know themiracle and mystery of the human spirit and be granted a precious glimpseinto what could be the most powerful force in the universe.