A Little Help from my Friends . . . and Other Hilarious Tales of Graying Graciously

Too many older adults look upon their lives as a shrinking island to which they retire surrounded by their aches and pains, regrets, and fears. But not Jean Carnahan and her friend Edna. They are two gutsy septuagenarians with a hearty outlook on life. The way Erma Bombeck did, they have found the funny answers to the perplexities of daily living and they are eager to share their insight.

In these thirty-eight, laugh-out-loud essays, Jean and her friend Edna are opinionated and vociferous. They react to everything from malls, manners, and makeup to birthdays, beauty secrets, and bras. They take on handbags, clutter, airport security, grandchildren, napping, habits, pets, health, saleswomen, travel, coffee shops, and weddings. It took Jean and Edna 77 years a piece to figure out life, but they've done it with aplomb. "We've tackled the aggravations of aging the only way we knew how," says the former U.S. Senator, "with sunny abandonment."

You will laugh out loud as Jean reveals the 100 Signs that You May Be Getting Old, the 30 Laws of Inevitability, the 47 Things She Misses from the Good Old Days, and the 31 Things She Doesn't Miss at all.

Fortunately, laughing at life never gets old.