Sunset Manor: Adventures in aging in a small Midwestern town

What happens when your mind isn't old but your body says it is? Laurel Carey walks us through hallways of Sunset Manor and the people she meets there as she lives out her golden years in a small Midwestern senior home. From the much-feared Crabby Applebee to the deafening sounds of Otto Schmitt's music to mysterious gunfire in the middle of a cold winter night, she shares funny, heartwarming stories of her new neighbors as she tries to coax stories from them about what their lives were like before they ended up living with her at Sunset Manor. Carey shares her own adventurous spirit with tales of her life growing up in Minnesota during the Great Depression, marriage and children with her high school sweetheart, Bernie, and the shift her life took at 54 when he died. She returns to school, opens her own business and when her colt, Comet, runs away during a storm, she meets a cowboy who will change the second half of her life. Sprinkled with poems, stories and observations about life, Carey shows us that a lively mind and a keen imagination can trump all the aches and pains of getting older.