Older, Wiser, Shorter: The Truth and Humor of Life after 65

OWS is an intimate collection of 84 poems from Jane Seskin, a working psychotherapist and author. Seskin, authentic, funny, insightful, quirky and heartfelt, acknowledges the disappointments, physical vulnerability and emotional loss taking place in her senior years. She is able to discover within herself a solid sense of power, resilience and new-found joys through her struggles to acknowledge, accommodate and accept her aging. Seskin's ability to make the very personal universal will resonate with readers seeking to discover new ways to honor the past, celebrate the present and welcome the future. A Reading Guide to the poems will inspire further reflection and discussion for book and women's groups.

Biography

Jane Seskin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & the author of 13 books. She's also written nonfiction articles and poetry online and for national magazines and journals (20 poems published in Cosmopolitan Magazine, 4 poems in Woman's Day). 18 of her posts have been published in the Metropolitan Diary column in the New York Times.

Jane has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center and Noepe Center For Literary Arts. For 20 years she counseled survivors at the Crime Victims Treatment Center in New York. She currently maintains a private psychotherapy practice with adult clients.