This warm, wise, clear-eyed, and lighthearted memoir offers gentle tips on getting old gracefully. Throughout lovely stories from the author's full life, the reader will discover all sorts of profound and practical counsel: laugh often (your wrinkles will point upward and make you look happy); spend time with young people ("if you are over eighty, even a seventy-six-year-old is young"!); take care of things (the author has a fern named Anni-Frid); be open-minded; carry memories of departed loved ones with you always; don't sit for long periods of time; wear stripes; eat chocolate….There's even an appendix expanding upon "the gentle art of Swedish Death Cleaning" (the topic of her first book), which helps you cull your belongings so you can live more simply—and so your loved ones won't have to do it later. It's all wonderful, entertaining, and life-enhancing advice! (CH)