"I'm New at Being Old" by Lucy Rose Fischer

Date

Jun 28th, 2010 4:48pm

Author

Eric Schubert

Category

lifelong learning

So many new ideas, careers and adventures are being launched through aging.    When Lucy Rose Fischer was nearing 60, she became an artist after nearly 25 years as a researcher and author in the field of aging.  Her new book, "I'm New at Getting Old" (Temuna Press) is getting rave reviews:

Here's Twin Cities book reviewer Mary Ann Grossman of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press on Fischer's work:

"I'm New at Being Old" is one of the prettiest, liveliest picture books of the season.  Fischer expects it to resonate with the 40 million women, age 55 and older, " who look in the mirror and wonder:  "Is that really me?"

Illustrated by Fischer's lively and colorful drawings, her text reads like poetry, with the narrator worrying about "losing my mind" because names slip from her brain.  She writes of accepting her wrinkles and wondering where the time has gone.  When she visits her elderly mother-in-law at a senior community, someone asks to her horror, if she's a new resident.  But her tone is optimistic:  "I'm in transition -- new at being old.  Gingerly, I join the World of Older Women."