Laughter Is the Best Medicine for Middle Age

What else can you do but laugh when you look in the mirror and discover that right there, under your chin, youve grown your own turtleneck? What can you say when you have driven miles in the fast lane, only to find your left turn signal has been blinking the entire time?

(PRWEB) August 10, 2005 -- What else can you do but laugh when you look in the mirror and discover that right there, under your chin, youve grown your own turtleneck? What can you say when you have driven miles in the fast lane, only to find your left turn signal has been blinking the entire time?

Bestselling author Martha Bolton offers readers a comical take on the truths of aging. Her fans crave each chapter just as they crave one more piece of chocolate.

Reading chapters such as The The Five People You Meet in a Buffet Line," Its All Downhill from Here," and Tuesdays with Metamucil," readers will laugh out loud with Martha as she points out the often overlooked hilarities of life. Remember that the older you get, the more you realize that your time is too valuable to waste, so live your life on purpose"-but have some fun doing it!

About the Author: Martha Bolton is a full-time comedy writer and the author of more than fifty books, including Didnt My Skin Used to Fit? and Cooking With Hot Flashes, winner of Publishers Marketing Associations Benjamin Franklin Award. She was a staff writer for Bob Hope for fifteen years and has written for Phyllis Diller, Wayne Newtons USO show, Ann Jillian, Jeff Allen, and many other entertainers. Her writing has appeared in Readers Digest, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Brio magazine. She has received four Angel Awards and an Emmy nomination. She and her husband live in Tennessee.

Growing Your Own Turtleneck... and Other Benefits of Aging by Martha Bolton

ISBN 0-7642-0003-8; Trade Paperback; $12.99; 192 pp.

AVAILABLE AUGUST 2005

Also by Martha Bolton:

Cooking with Hot Flashes, 0-7642-0002-X

Didnt My Skin Used to Fit, 0-7642-2184-1

I Think, Therefore I Have a Headache, 0-7642-2625-8

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