What does it mean to belong to the Café Society?It means you sit up straight. You speak at a civilized volume. You never place your arms on the table. You arrive with a book, an idea, or simply the willingness to be present — and you let the morning come to you.The Café Society: A Portrait in Five Acts is Edward A. Samuelson's love letter to the international café — written from the table of a man who has been a devoted and card-carrying member for mos...

In the hush before sunrise, the lake stirs like a breathing womb.So begins Ochenta Plus — not a memoir, not a self-help book, but a devotional artifact. A mandala made of words. A sacred offering from a man who has lived eight decades with intention, transformed himself across continents, and arrived — finally, quietly — at the shores of Lago de Chapala, where the Mother of Waters watches over all.Written at eighty-plus from his sanctuary in Chapala, J...

The number was always 7.Born November 7, 1942 — the digits add to 7. Life path number 7. Seven crystal Buddhas on the shelf. Seven chapters. Eight decades of seeking, building, losing, and becoming.SEVEN: A New Beginning, As the Ending Closes In is the memoir of Edward A. Samuelson — Divine Mystic, artist, healer, and life guide — written at eighty-three from his home beside Lago de Chapala, Mexico. Structured around seven defining themes:LOVE — from card games with...

Something stopped.Not paused. Not on hold. Stopped. A job. A marriage. A career. A life that had run on autopilot for so long that when it suddenly ended, you realized you never once asked yourself the most important question: What would make me happiest?Fulfilling Your Dreams is Edward Samuelson's answer to that question — a practical, compassionate, and deeply personal twelve-step workbook for anyone ready to stop drifting and start living with inten...

The retirement rulebook is broken.Nobody told Edward Samuelson he was too old to be hired. Nobody suggested he consider a different kind of life. So he figured it out himself — and what he found was better than anything the rulebook had promised.Retirement Renegade is the honest, practical, and deeply personal guide that edd wishes someone had handed him when the corporate world let him go at fifty-eight. It is not about financial planning or early wit...

There is a question that hovers over the later years of a life, one that most people are afraid to ask aloud: What is to become of me?This is Edward Samuelson's answer. Or rather, it is the story of how Mexico became the answer.The Magic of Mexico: And the Becoming of Me is a memoir of loss, reinvention, and one extraordinary lake. When Samuelson was laid off at fifty-eight — invisible to employers, stunned by divorce, quietly sliding into depression —...

In 2019, on a terrace in Chapala, Mexico, Edward A. Samuelson picked up a Sharpie and began to draw.He had no plan. No image in mind. He simply put marker to paper each morning and watched what emerged — bold, surrealist pieces he calls MOMENTS. Over two years, as the world locked down and the fog of isolation thickened, he created 200 of them.This book contains sixty of his favorites.The Art of Isolation is both an art book and a memo...

What does peace look like when life has already taught you most of its lessons?PEACE in My Age is a quiet, meditative memoir built from eight words: light, friendship, gratitude, espresso, reflection, sanctuary, humanity, and age. Each short chapter is a single observation, written from a terrace above Lago de Chapala, Jalisco, México, where mornings begin in silver and end in gold.This is not a book that searches for answers. It is a book that has alr...