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Lyla Blake Ward transforms the everyday trials and tribulations of growing old (against one’s better judgment) into high hilarity. Brimming with wit and grace, this essay collection takes stock of developments both familiar and strange that have filled Ms. Ward’s life, from the parenting of grown children to confronting “connectivity fees” for the first time. Listeners will be charmed to meet this sly octogenarian, and will marvel as her gimlet wit rescues her – and us – time and again from the inanities of the post-consumer world.

Lyla Blake Ward's writing career officially began in 1949 when she sold her first poem to Colliers' Magazine. Over the last 60 years, she has published numerous works of humorous verse, op-eds, personal essays and pieces of social commentary in newspapers and magazines around the country, including: Good Housekeeping, the Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Woman's Day, Family Circle, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among many others. A savvy businesswomen, she also built and ran a small public relations agency, opened her own party goods store, and founded the monthly publication Party and Paper Retailer with her husband, Russ. Residing in Connecticut, Ward enjoys reading, woodworking, needlepoint, knitting, baking, cooking and attending her grandchildren's school plays.