"73" is a collection of twenty short stories touching on the regrets, rigors, remorse, reflections, revelations, realizations – I've run out of "r's" – of menand women who have reached age seventy-three, having acquired along the way the perspective to look back and the courage to look forward. The text on the artwork for the cover sums up the collection – When old age hits you, you can either fall down or hit back… idiosyncratic stories about men and women who have lived long lives… and ain’t done living yet. Each story stands alone and contributes to a cumulative understanding of what it's like to count mortality on your fingers.

What’s life like when the jokes about old age start applying to you! These revealing stories are must reading for every AARP member and baby boomer facing the future.

In a culture that regards people in their seventies like old cars ready for the junk heap, these heroes and heroines refuse to look at the odometer!