Life, the world and the neighborhood as seen from the sage and sensible perspective of 80 yr/old Gordon and his friends.

SYNOPSIS:

Four elderly friends spend their days exploring life, the world and their neighborhood from the perspective of Gordon’s porch.

Their peaceful lives are disrupted when Gordon’s wife passes away and they must do their best to continue with their lives while dealing with their loss. And to complicate matters, Gordon’s daughter Carol doesn’t like the idea that Dad would be living alone now that Mom has passed away. Perhaps they should consider Gordon moving into a senior center.

Gordon and his friends band together. Their neighborhood is all the senior center they need. The neighborhood. A very quiet side street, a dozen middle-class, well-maintained homes, most of the residents senior citizens.

Gordon is eighty years old. He and his wife went on an adventure every year since his retirement, and each year Gordon wrote an article for a travel magazine detailing their adventure. This year’s would be his last.

His lifelong friend James lives down the street. His own wife passed away a number of years earlier. He lives alone, is quite independent, his middle-aged children doing their best to address his needs.

Annie Romero lives alone at the other end of the street. She and her husband Manny, now deceased, were Godparents to Gordon and Jan’s daughter.

With Jan having now passed away, Gordon, James and Annie now number three; the band of three would continue to explore “life, the world and the neighborhood” from Gordon’s porch. Others in the neighborhood include Miss McCarthy, her dog Rocky who makes his daily rounds, and Old Man Lloyd, who walks the street with his tall, wooden staff as Moses leading his people out of Egypt.

This neighborhood… this wonderful, peaceful landscape set apart from the outside world. What better for this small group of lifelong friends to spend their remaining years? What better than Gordon’s porch?

Gordon’s Porch has been adapted to a novella, available in ebook, paperback, large print paperback, hardcover and audiobook.