Charmaine
Gordon spread her wings at age fifty-four to drive alone to New York City and
find a career as an actor. She worked on One Life to Live for
eleven years, All My Children for
two, and Another World.
She also has roles in many movies, including Working Girl and When Harry Met Sally.
She had fun with Harrison Ford, lunched with Anthony Hopkins, and sang with
Carrie Fisher. Then one day while performing on stage, she noticed her voice
felt odd. The next day, a voice specialist confirmed she had spasmodic
dysphonia, which put an end to her acting career. That’s when Charmaine started
writing. Today she stops by to tell us why age is just a number. Learn more
about her and her books at her website.
No Time
for Green Bananas
Writers get their ideas from strange places. While visiting with a dear
friend in Chicago a while back, she told me about a cousin who mentioned the
phrase “No Time for Green Bananas” and laughed his head off. He stretched it out
to say, “I’m too old for green bananas.” I found it funny yet true. After I
returned to New York, the words blossomed in my head. A story was born. At
least the title held firm and I fleshed out two characters to fit. I pictured a
seventy-five-year-old woman, now widowed, who owns an airline for pleasure
trips. Very upscale. The man is a sixty-year-old widower whose wife’s last
words were, “Find a good woman to be with.” They meet on the trip to the
Saranac Lake Region where people enjoy scaling the mountains and dancing by
night.
So far so good, I thought, and start a new story. This is how it begins
every time. I fall in love with my characters as they fall in love with each
other. It’s a joy to create and write. I never realized this would be a career
until I lost my good voice and could no longer be in show business. I’m a woman
who believes in Survive and Thrive. That’s what I do. No matter what happens,
chin up, smile, and get over myself.
“No Time for Green Bananas” is
one of three stories of mature love, passion, and suspense in The Beginning…Not the End. I never
dreamed a 5-star review would appear after publication. To dream the impossible
dream is not out of reach, dear readers. The Golden Years can sparkle with love
and romance combined with humor. Thank you for helping my dreams come true, and
all you had to do was turn the pages to be swept away with the knowledge that
life isn’t over ‘til it’s over. So enjoy every moment.
My name is Charmaine Gordon, a senior and the author of these Mature
Romances. Welcome to my world.
The Beginning…Not the End
Three stories of mature love,
passion, and suspense
“No Time
for Green Bananas”—Celeste Hamlin, seventy-five year old widow, has a goal to
conquer the six mountains in the Saranac Lake region before deciding to do with
the rest of her llife. Sixty-two year old Professor Paul Harris meets the
dynamic Celeste, and recalls the last words his wife said before she
passed. "Find another love and begin again." Will they begin again?
“She
Didn't Say No”—Grace didn't say no to the Big Man On Campus, Scott Dwyer. And
then her life changed...Years later. a too-close encounter of an unpleasant
kind with a skunk and Scott's German Shepherd reunites the former lovers. What
happens in between are their stories of beginnings and endings and love
lost, then found.
“Dr. D and the Dad”—A trip over a mound of sand on the beach begins a
journey for Diane O'Rourke and Tony Flannigan. She's a pediatrician, a bit over
weight; he has a foster care home with three children under his sheltering
wing...and a dark secret. Can they overcome the past and make the future work
for them? They might just find the initial trip was well worth it.
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