The Old Hippies Still Had Fight Left

The Old Hippies Still Had Fight Left

Grandma Had Enough — Book 1

BONUS INCLUDED: An original song inspired by the story, plus a narrated story file, both available through simple QR-code access.

The Old Hippies Still Had Fight Left is Book 1 in the Grandma Had Enough series, a collection of illustrated stories about older adults who refuse to surrender their independence, dignity, homes, money, or right to make their own decisions.

Cecile thought her son Derek and his partner Brittany were coming for a short visit.

Then the mail started disappearing.

Important papers were moved. Financial documents were photographed. Questions were asked about the house. Soon there was talk about assisted living.

That was when Cecile realized something was very wrong.

Derek and Brittany were not simply visiting. They were making plans for her life, her money, and her home.

There was only one problem.

Cecile still lived there.

And she had friends.

Very determined friends.

Enter the Home Guard: a wonderfully unruly group of old hippies who may have traded protest marches for mortgages decades ago, but apparently never lost the ability to organize when it mattered.

Soon there are protest signs, porch watches, security cameras, neighborhood surveillance, labeled refrigerator shelves, golf carts, police officers, forged documents, and an entire community making one thing very clear:

CECILE LIVES HERE.

The Old Hippies Still Had Fight Left is a funny, empowering illustrated story about elder financial exploitation, family entitlement, found family, independence, and what happens when an older woman finally decides that enough is enough.

The situations are exaggerated for entertainment, but the warning signs underneath them are very real: control disguised as help, pressure over property and money, isolation, manipulation, forged documents, and the dangerous assumption that a parent’s home is simply an inheritance waiting to happen.

At the heart of the story is a difficult question:

How do you protect yourself when the person threatening your independence is someone you still love?

Cecile discovers that loving the child she raised does not require trusting the man he became.

And sometimes the people who become your real family are not the people who share your blood.

They are the people who show up.

This large-print illustrated edition is designed especially for comfortable reading, with big black-and-white illustrations throughout.

A parent’s home is not an early inheritance.

And these old hippies are about to make sure everyone in La Boca Vista remembers it.