Senior Moments: Looking Back Looking Ahead

Drawing on more than six decades’ worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that when taken together constitute the life of a man who despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied overcome and resisted has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading looking at art talking and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead.. Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for and disappointment in long-awaited reunions at which the past comes alive in the present. It is guaranteed to stimulate stir and restore.