Lyla Blake Ward transforms the everyday trials and tribulations of growing old (against one's better judgment) into high hilarity. Brimming with wit and grace, this essay collection takes stock of developments both familiar and strange that have filled Ms. Ward's life, from the parenting of grown children to confronting "connectivity fees" for the first time. Listeners will be charmed to meet this sly octogenarian, and will marvel as her gimlet wit rescues her - and us - time and again from the inanities of the post-consumer world.