The beloved author of Forever Fifty and Suddenly Sixty tackles the ins and outs
of becoming a septuagenarian with wry good humor. Fans of Viorst's funny,
touching, and wise decades poems will love these verses filled with witty advice
and reflections on marriage, milestones, and middle-aged children. Viorst
explores, among the many other issues of this stage of life, the state of our
sex lives and teeth, how we can stay married though thermostatically
incompatible, and the joys of grandparenthood and shopping. Readers will nod
with rueful recognition when she asks, Am I required to think of myself as a
basically shallow woman because I feel better