Elaine Ambrose

I've decided to take the 75 in '15 challenge, and this was my first book of the new year. Elaine Ambrose gives expert advise about life after age 50--and even though she's female and I'm male, most everything she writes struck a chord with me. I could not relate to the chapters about grandchildren, but even those were witty, insightful, and downright fun to read. The section on the challenges of dealing with an elderly parent were especially poignant, bringing back the memories of the last year of my own mother's life. I would recommend this book to everyone, but I fear, like the movie The Bucket List, it will speak to those of us of a certain age and be incomprehensible to those much younger. Unless they like laughing at their elders, that is.… (more)