Publisher's Synopsis
A thoughtful consideration of the gains and losses of the ageing process. The author writes about old age from within the experience in all its dailiness, describing without either sentiment or despair how it actually feels to grow old, to be old, and to look over life. In a series of meditative passages and journal entries, she presents old age as a time that calls for gallantry and courage, and offers opportunites for inner growth and the acquiring of wisdom.