“This book explores the joys of newfound love in old age, the miraculous blossoming that can occur when two lovers find each other after a lifetime of searching…The crystalline poems in The Kama Sutra for Senior Citizens are shot through with a gentle melancholy leavened by wit and eros.”

— Alison Luterman, Catamaran Poetry Prize Winner

“I love this book for its reassuring frankness, subtlety, and genial intelligence.… a mind so inventive, so alive to possibility, always at the heart of loving and delight… This book isn’t just for seniors, it’s for anyone who wants to feel what it is to be fully alive.”

— Tess Gallagher, Author of Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems

“These poems come to grips with the melancholy of aging set against the backdrop of love and sex, community and loneliness, laughter and tears.”

— Joseph Millar, Guggenheim and NEA Fellowship Recipient

What does love look like in life’s later chapters? In this tender, mischievous new collection of poetry, Zack Rogow answers with the hard-won wisdom of a man newly single in his senior years.

“After being with the same person for over three decades, I found my life upside down, dating again after the age of 65,” says Rogow, a teacher, playwright, poet, and translator. “I went on over 75 first dates and tried every-which-way to meet someone that I could feel a loving connection with. Luckily, I did, but it was not easy.” Rogow adds: “I didn’t succeed in finding a long-term partner by dating online. I finally met my current partner through our mutual interest in French literature. In an interview, he will share the following:

How he survived 75 first-time dates until he found a second chance at deep intimacy

The challenges and rewards of aging

What he discovered on the singles scene after not dating for 35 years

Why the three-time Pushcart Prize for Poetry nominee writes about love

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Zack Rogow is the author, editor or translator of more than 20 books and plays. Nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize for Poetry, his previous nine collections of poetry include Irreverent Litanies, Talking with the Radio: poems inspired by jazz and popular music, and The Number Before Infinity. His memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost, was released in 2024. Zack’s co-authored play, Colette Uncensored, had its first staged reading at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and later ran in London, Indonesia, Catalonia, San Francisco, and Portland. His blog, Advice for Writers, features more than 300 posts. He has received the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, the Northern California Book Reviewers Award in Translation, and the Celestine Award for Poetry. He also edited the anthology The Face of Poetry (University of California Press).

Additional career highlights include:

Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award for translation of Horace by George Sand

Lili Fabilli-Eric Hoffer Essay Prize, UC Berkeley

Co-authored play Colette Uncensored, nominated for outstanding solo show by Theatre Bay Area, and co-authored play Groucho for President selected for JETFest, festival of new plays; staged reading

Taught at University of Anchorage and California College of the Arts

Contributing editor for Catamaran Literary Reader

Served as managing director of The Poetry Center at San Francisco State University

Wrote lyrics for several jazz songs, one of which was recorded by the chanteuse Carrie Wicks. Listen here: https://originarts.com/oa2/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=22175

His dad, Lee Rogow, was a widely published writer and man-about-town in Manhattan in the 1950s, before dying tragically in an airplane crash when he was three years old. Zack writes about this in his memoir, Hugging My Father’s Ghost.

Rogow earned his Master of Arts in English from City College and BA in English from Yale University, graduating Cum Laude. He resides in Northern California. For more information, visit www.zackrogow.com.

Social Media:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zackrogow

X: @ZackRogow

Bluesky: Zackrogow.bsky.social

His blog is here: https://zackrogow.blogspot.com/

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“RAIN IS FROZEN WATER, TOUCHING MOTHER EARTH.” -Reverend Paul Sladkus, All Faiths & Spiritual. Join us www.pausetheworldforpeace.org for Earth Day in Times Square, April 22, 2026.

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For years Good News has been supporting those who are helping MOTHER EARTH be a cleaner more sustainable planet. Our Earth and Water Day Concert and Exhibition in TIMES SQUARE on April 22, 2026, at 3PM, is the culmination of over 25 years of Content with people who CARE. 

We are excited to announce NOW, some of our performers who will grace our Earth Day Stage:

Participants in the show include:

OMMM, Earth Day Founders, as well as: World-Renowned Speakers & Talent, Corporations, Government Leaders, and Peace Messengers, Leonardo DiCaprio, Shakira, and Stevie Wonder, virtually join our events. Millions view our events. 

Special this year is our 2026 Theme, LOVE YOUR MOTHER, as well as a major Tribute to Dr. Jane Goodall, who we have supported for over 20 years, along with a Tribute to Pete Seeger for his Clearwater outreach, which we also have supported for over 20 years, and OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS…. Which is WHY WE HAVE BEEN CREATING OUR EVENTS FOR 24 YEARS. Exciting… We just added the classic show Pinkalicous, where we will show the importance of eating healthy GREEN FOOD, the show AMAZE, with one of the world’s Greatest Magicians, Jamie Allen, NYC School Students and Julliard Students performing, along with OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS 13 YEARS OLD HOST HUDSON HENLEY, who just starred as the son to Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman in the movie, Song Sung Blue, story of Neil Diamond who we love.

Lastly, we are in final logistics working with the largest Student Run FOOD RECOVERY NETWORK, where we just helped recover 15,000 pounds of food at Guy Fieri’s Super Bowl Tailgate Party and gave to the Delancey Foundation for the needy in SF, to do a major FOOD RECOVERY ON EARTH DAY IN NY. 

Additionally, we have World Renown pianist Katya Grineva, who just sold-out Carnegie Hall for Christmas Show and Giorgia Fumante World Renown Singer, both who have entertained our audiences for over 10 years, a leading group from Nashville and Pamela Peeters Environmental Economist/100 Voices of the Future and Hugg a Planets, Peace Lights, Peace Parrots.  

Our partners OMMM will bring in England’s own environmental and talented Jarvis Smith, Sister Jenna, Rachel Singh, Vinay Vyas, Sanjeev Verma, Abuela Martha, United Nations, NY City School Entertainers (Mia Narciso & Friends) Grammy Nominated Antonique Smith, Climate Week/Earth Day, Aaron Ableman, Young Joe, …

We are in negotiations with many other well know talent and we welcome bringing you and your talent to our HIGHLY RESPECTED STAGE IN THE CROSSROADS OF THE WORLD WITH OUR GRAMMY AND EMMY WINNING NETWORK PRODUCTION TEAM

EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT: Here is a story a Press Story as of February 24, 2026 in the Daily News Online about our event. https://newyorkdailynewsonline.com/earth-day-pause-for-peace-in-the-heart-of-times-square-produced-by-paul-sladkus/

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1.    Here is a Black History Month SPECIAL BY GENE FISCH, JR., Producer, speaking at Carnegie Hall about his Upcoming Broadway Show about Satchel Page.

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Student-Led Food Recovery Network (FRN) – now the largest in the US – is making a Big Impact during the Big Game. FRN and Hellmann’s Mayonnaise are working together so that no food gets wasted and goes to families in need in the Bay Area. Good News, Paul Sladkus & Ivy Ma are volunteering at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Tailgate food location.

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Please donate here, as we have incurred financial losses on our peace efforts and continue to expand them.   https://goodnewsplanet.com/pausetheworld/peace-day-donations/

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find your way through

ANY ROCK.”

GOOD MORNING.

Stay blessed

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Looking for a guest to bring hope to those who may be discouraged from fighting the good fight to help a family member through these debilitating diseases? Faith McDonald, author of On the Loving End of Crazy: Finding Hope and Help to Face Your Loved One’s Crippling Anxiety and Depression, is that guest!
This book offers hope and help to those who love someone who faces anxiety disorder and major depression. The story starts when Faith’s son Matt begins college; however, instead of attending classes and learning to thrive, he flounders and fails. His life becomes a series of arrests and reckless, self-destructive acts culminating in a suicide attempt. In the wake of his bewildering behavior, Faith worries that his life will never get back on track. She longs for her son to thrive. She aches, prays, and wonders how to intervene.
As Faith watches her beloved son self-destruct, she grapples with challenges that will resonate with readers:
• I feel helpless.
• I don’t know where to get the help I need.
• I’m embarrassed that we need help like this.
• I’m angry with my son.
• I feel furious with my husband–can’t he cope more competently?
• I’m worried that our family will fall apart.
• I feel misunderstood by my church friends and pastors.
How will Faith keep her namesake and family when anxiety disorder and depression masked by substance abuse threaten to destroy Matt’s life? With statistics in 2016 showing that 33% of college students felt so depressed that they found it difficult to function, and the number of students seeking help for anxiety has soared, it’s difficult to fathom.
However, as your audience journey’s along with Faith, they will learn that when life seems like a series of heart-wrenching disappointments, God is powerfully present. Matt’s journey is harrowing, but with faith, prayer, support of friends, and psychological help, he begins to thrive. Faith shares the essentials she learned to encourage anyone with a loved one who battles mental illness.
This story helps your audience to:
• Find Comfort–they don’t face the journey alone.
• Persist in seeking professional help for their loved ones.
• Find the courage to endure the dark days of the illness of their loved one.
• Stop blaming themselves or others for the dark days.
• Share their stories to fight stigma and shame.
• Ask for support from those around them.
I look forward to hearing your interview interest for Faith McDonald and On the Loving End of Crazy soon.
“Mental illness can shatter even the most loving and secure family. On the Loving End of Crazy offers real help for anyone who knows the experience–and it’s written by someone who has lived it. Faith Tibbetts McDonald writes from the heart and her compelling story will not only inspire, it will help to heal the broken pieces.”
—Les Parrott, PH.D. New York Times bestselling author of The Good Fight
“Faith McDonald is generous with her story, and she invites us into her experience in navigating the heartbreaking challenges of a loved one’s serious mental illness. She points toward a path for finding help, and her relatable story will offer hope to many.”
—Amy Simpson, Author Troubled Minds Mental Illness and the Church’s Mission and Anxious: Choosing Faith in a World of Worry
“Faith McDonald’s On the Loving End of Crazy brings an authentic and vulnerable contribution to the mental health conversation. Readers will know they aren’t alone and that help and hope do exist for loved ones with mental illness and their care-givers. Faith writes beautifully, bravely, and honestly, and her story will inspire perseverance and faith for families in need of support for mental illness.”
—Heather Holleman, speaker and author of Seated with Christ: Living Freely in a Culture of Comparison (Moody)
On the Loving End of Crazy: Finding Hope and Help to Face Your Loved One’s Crippling Anxiety and Depression
By Faith McDonald
• Paperback: 213 pages
• Publisher: Independently published (February 2, 2020)
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 979-8600318588
Faith likes to write stories and share them to encourage, entertain, connect, and help people learn. She’s written for many magazines and newspapers. One of her favorite articles “I Just Want to be Happy” was published in Today’s Christian Woman magazine and voted readers’ favorite that month. For many years, she wrote a column about family life for newspapers. She followed that writing gig with a blog. She’s currently an assistant teaching professor at Penn State University, she shares communication and writing principles with students in business and technical writing classes. When she’s not writing or reading, she loves to be outside. Faith likes to bike and hike with friends. She hopes and prays that her family’s story of a young adult son’s struggle with anxiety and chronic depression will help your audience members who are in this same place, as they navigate the challenges of loving someone through mental illness. These audience members’ days aren’t easy, but their loving actions are valiant and necessary. The audience members’ loved one can’t face the struggle alone. Faith wishes them courage and hope! You can visit Faith at her website faithmcdonald.com and on Social Media @ IG, FaceBook, and Twitter.

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