Thank you for deciding to give someone special in your life a year’s subscription to “52 Shades of Graying.”
When you enter your recipient’s email address on the subscription page, that will automatically trigger a “welcome” new subscriber email note to your parent from me.
So, before you subscribe, you may want to send a private email to your recipient to clarify several things. Below is a template for that email. You can copy, paste , edit and use it as you see fit.
Hi, XXXX:
As a (“thinking of you,” “birthday gift,” anniversary gift," “holiday gift,” etc.) , you can expect to receive a “52 Shades of Graying” short story by email each week during the next 12 months.
Every Wednesday subscribers to “52 Shades of Graying” receive by email a six-minute-text and audio short story. These 52 stories are fiction but based on Jim Hasse’s 82 years of experience as a social observer and as a person with a disability.Each new story is about a fictional older adult who uses hindsight and foresight to offer a takeaway tip and a discussion question about an ageism or ableism issue or an impediment to well being mature individuals often encounter as they live through various shades of aging.
Your 52-story run will start next Wednesday and continue for the next 52 weeks.
At any time during the next 12 months, you can access Jim’s collection of more than 100 such stories by clicking on the archive link on the “52 Shades of Graying” home page.
I hope you enjoy these short stories. Here is a fan favorite.
I have signed up to receive the same stories you receive every week in my email, so we can compare reactions and our personal stories about the topics that crop up along the way.
(Dad, Mom) will also receive your weekly stories in his email, so be sure to share your thoughts between yourselves about the aging-well issues they raise.XXXXXXX
Here’s to mature-adult living!
Jim Hasse, ABC, GCDF retired, author of “52 Shades of Graying”
Weekly Stories About Aging Well
