It's a common belief that older adults are generally tired, grumpy and unhappy. Movies, TV commercials and late night punch lines often assume older adults are hapless buffoons with nothing better to do than yell "Get off of my lawn " They like to complain endlessly about their physical ailments to anyone who will listen.This is largely a myth. While physical and cognitive decline are a natural part of the aging process, the truth of aging is very different to the one popular culture would have us believe.Humans are actually the happiest at the early and later phases of life. Scholar Laura Carstensen calls it The Happiness Curve - or the U-Curve of Happiness. She's spent over three decades researching the topic. Head of the Stanford Center on Longevity, Carstensen's research on happiness found that older adults were actually happier overall than at any other time in their life since childhood. They are happier than their teenage years, their 20's and 30's, happier even than when they became wealthy and successful. This book makes the case that we get better with age, that the best is yet to come.

Ridiculously Old and Getting Better

Humor & Entertainment

Miller, Lynn Ruth

Humor

Eldership Academy Press

Multi-award-winning Lynn Ruth Miller - dubbed “the new Joan Rivers” - is the world's oldest performing standup comedienne. She now travels the world telling inappropriate jokes and shattering stereotypes. This extraordinary autobiography is the almost unbelievable, but totally true story, of one uniquely funny and talented woman’s sheer determination to succeed. After spending her first seventy years finding success as an author, a newspaper columnist and a TV pundit, she stumbled into her new, life-changing career as a live comic by accident. As Lynn Ruth puts it herself: “I always came up with smart remarks that got me into trouble". For over fifteen years, she has travelled from stage to stage, from one country to the next, in search of the next big laugh - winning acclaim from live audiences and becoming an internet sensation in the process. In her 80s, she discovered she had a talent as a burlesque dancer, winning Best Newcomer & Most Original Performance at the Texas Burlesque Festival. Since then, she won the hearts of millions on Britain’s First Dates and America's Got Talent, became a viral sensation on Freeda, and like a fine wine, kept getting better, proving humor is universal and age is just a number. In Getting the Last Laugh, Lynn Ruth Miller tells you how a jaw-dropping revelation at the age of 70 led her to become the world's oldest performing comedienne, and live her life to the fullest. A breath of fresh air in an industry full of recycled voices. She gives me life!” Tiff Stevenson “Lynn has shaken up the status quo on the stand-up circuit. A pure joy!”Aisling Bea

Getting the Last Laugh: The Inspirational True Story of the World's Oldest Performing Comedienne

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

excentrix press

A selection of the best columns written over the past three years in a continuing series for The Pacifica Tribune, Pacifica, CA. These columns touch on topics that concern us all: women’s potential in our changing world, the idiosyncrasies of society and the challenges created by advancing years. Each topic is illustrated with a touch of nostalgia addressed with humor in a vignette drawn from the author’s checkered past.

Thoughts While Walking the Dog

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

MORE THOUGHTS WHILE WALKING THE DOG is the second collection of warm upbeat stories that glorify the human condition, warts and all.

More Thoughts While Walking the Dog

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Ridiculously Old and Getting Better

Getting the Last Laugh: The Inspirational True Story of the World's Oldest Performing Comedienne

Thoughts While Walking the Dog

More Thoughts While Walking the Dog