Good Old Joe Young

Good Old Joe Young is the story of an aspiring, young writer who doesn't quite achieve his dream but becomes a perspiring obituary writer for a minor newspaper in the days when newspapers were the news. The days when managing editors and their readers both got ink on their hands. When daily commuters struggled to fold their reading material on crowded subways and buses. When moms and dads trained the pets their kids wanted so badly on newspaper they spread across the floor. 

With a good heart and a proclivity to become easily bored, Joe makes the life-changing decision to turn perfectly ordinary obituaries into great fiction.  He becomes a hit with both the living and the dead.

After forty some odd - some would say, very odd - years, Joe is squeezed out when the obituary section of his newspaper is outsourced to India. The new writers believe in reincarnation.  And Joe doesn’t do sequels.

With more time now to enjoy life, Joe decides instead to travel - through his own life. And you get to read along as he's jotting it all down.

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Life is short. So are obituaries. Coincidence? Joe doesn't think so.