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Boomer Of The Month - October 1997

MIKE BELLAH

Meet Mike Bellah, Boomer of The month for October, 1997. 
Mike spent most of his 48 years in the same Texas 
Panhandle town where his great-grandparents arrived as 
pioneer settlers nearly a century ago.

For 25 years Mike kept himself busy as youth camp director, 
a pastor, a seminar speaker, and now a college teacher and  
columnist.

His column is about issues and problems that most 
of us all are going through, dealing with or facing.
It is also about the same thing that's getting him 
through his midlife. 

	"I write to those of us who struggle with adult 
	disappointment because of a promise I made to myself 
	as a disappointed teen." - Mike Bellah 


Mike said that he is not an expert on aging or midlife.  
Mike said that his academic studies have centered not 
in psychology or sociology, but in theology, 
English literature, and communication. He is more
familiar with Shakespeare than Freud. Besides, he 
thinks of experts as people who know human behavior 
primarily because they read about or observe it 
(both needful things, but not in primary methodology). 


My words are not those of an expert on but a veteran 
of midlife struggles.  I can write about the midlife crisis 
because I muddled through one. I know about career changes 
because I'm in the middle of one. 

I also writes about lives that are too busy, too anxious,
and too obsessed with the trivial because mine sometimes is. 
Similarly, the gains and joys of midlife (and there are many) are
not something I learned in a book, I am living them.

Mike's web site is about hope, about us and for US.
Visit Mike at http://www.bestyears.com or 
Write to him at mikeb@bestyears.com




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November 3, 1997 

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