A young girl's attempt to retrieve her ball from her grouchy, old neighbor's yard changes the way they feel about each other.

Even though 10-year-old Melinda fears riding, her father buys her a horse and it is only through her friendship with an elderly writer that Melinda overcomes her fear.

More than anything, an old man wishes he were young again--until he spends the day with his grandson.

"Growing older brings many thoughts of "I wish I knew that before." This book provides information to help us age as well as possible. Surprisingly, our feelings do not age. Pleasure and contentment interface loneliness, loss, fears and sorrow. At a time when life is thought easier, new problems and situations that are challenging arise. Four stages of aging include the initiation to aging at about fifty years of age, changes in life following retirement,...

Things are never quite the same after Jacob and Laura's lovable but idiosyncratic grandfather moves in.

A young boy helps his two neighbors, one as neat as a pin and the other as junky as a pack rat, become friends.

Grandma Ronnie's grandson has a hard time adjusting to her needing a wheelchair, living in a nursing home, and not recognizing him when he comes to visit her.

Forty-one notable women, all over fifty, provide essays and poems about the discoveries that come from aging.