Forward From Here Leaving Middle Age--and Other Unexpected Adventures

In her funny and wistful new book, Reeve Lindbergh contemplates entering "the youth of old age," as her mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, described turning sixty. It is a time of life, she writes, that produces some unexpected surprises. Age brings loss but also love; disaster, but also delight. But above all, says Lindbergh, it can bring the gift of great awareness. "Time flies," she observes, "but if I am willing to fly with it, then I can be air-borne, too."

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of several books for adults and children, including the memoris Under a Wing and No More Words. She lives with her husband, Nat Tripp, and several animals on a farm in northern Vermont.