Getting old is nothing to laugh at and yet laughing at aging can make the inevitable so much easier.
Stop by the New Westminster Public Library for a few books and a curative chuckle.
In Kick Up Your Heels . Before You're Too Short to Wear Them, humour guru Loretta LaRoche tells us how to live a long, healthy, 'juicy' life and that it's never too late to start aging well.
Roger Rosenblatt's Rules for Aging are 58 gems of funny, wise and indispensable advice.
Rule number 2: Nobody is thinking about you. (They are thinking of themselves - just like you.)
Local wit Eric Nicol keeps us chuckling with his Old is In: A Guide for Aging Boomers. Having forged the way he looks back from his 80s and offers advice for the boomer generation on how to cope in the years ahead.
With her characteristic dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron, in I Feel Bad About My Neck, provides a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with what life throws at them.
Comic strip writer Nicole Hollander takes us out of the aging doldrums with her Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial.
Some boomers who take care of aging parents find humour in their situation. Welcome to the Departure Lounge is Meg Federico's hilarious and poignant memoir about caring for her 80-year-old mother and her relatively new (and equally old) step-father in their not so golden years.
Some writers use poetry to look wryly at aging, as did New Westminster resident Pegeen McAskill in her collection Down the Other Side.
And in the well known poem Warning by Jenny Joseph the narrator proclaims "When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple" and that she will flout society's rules and live for herself.
However, perhaps like her, we should practise a little now so people are not too shocked when suddenly we're old and start to wear purple.
