The Last Letters of Sally and Walter by Cammie McGovern

April 10, 2026

The letters in the title of Cammie McGovern’s novel, The Last Letters of Sally and Walter, refer to Scrabble letters, not correspondence. It’s a quiet story, with mature characters who are actually mature in age, unlike some novels that refer to seniors as...

Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old by Steven Petrow

November 24, 2024

A friend of mine mentioned Steven Petrow’s nonfiction book, Stupid Things I Won’t Do When I Get Old on his Facebook page, so I picked it up. As with any book of advice or essays, there were pieces that struck me, and some that I actually skimmed through...

Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher

January 28, 2019

Even the subtitle of Mary Pipher’s latest bestseller, Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing as We Age, doesn’t really do an adequate job describing how fascinating this book is. If you’re a woman over sixty, you might...

Happiness is a Choice You Make by John Leland

February 27, 2018

At the beginning of 2015, John Leland, a journalist for the New York Times, embarked on a year-long project. He met with seniors to come up with six people to follow to learn from them about being old, and what it means today. The result was a series in the newspaper...