The women in Happy Birthday talk intimately about the joys and challenges of aging. Their conversations range from their vanishing underarm hair to riding Segways at age eighty. They share moving tributes to valued friends and heartfelt revelations on journeys through grief. These women are honest and candid. They know sorrow, and they know joy. They choose to look at all of it with a sense of humor.

"Stories of a Western Town" from Alice French. American novelist and short fiction writer (1850-1934).

"Stories That End Well" from Alice French. American novelist and short fiction writer (1850-1934).