This is a book to read when you are a certain age and I have reached that place. I found the short stories and poems funny, disturbing, poignant and oddly comforting. Despite the feisty title, many of these entries are about the fading of vitality and the rigors of aging. In that reality, however, is where I found the comfort: the saying goes, "aging is not for sissies", and the dignity often presented in these stories are ultimately about the courage to keep living.