Getting older is inevitable. Acting old is optional.

The Funny Side of Aging is a celebration of everything that happens when the candles on the birthday cake start costing more than the cake.

It’s about those wonderfully ridiculous moments when you walk into a room and forget why you’re there, when your pill organizer has more compartments than your toolbox, and when getting up from a chair suddenly comes with its own sound effects.

But this isn’t a book about complaining about getting older. It’s about laughing at it.
With humor, warmth, and a healthy refusal to “act your age,” Rick Segel takes a playful look at the everyday realities of life after 55: doctors and medications, memory lapses, changing bodies, retirement, adult children, friendships, fashion, technology, and all the little surprises nobody bothered to warn us about.

Behind the laughs is a simple message: Life doesn’t become less interesting because we get older. In many ways, it becomes funnier.