<p><strong>BABY BOOMER WOMEN DO NOT BELIEVE THEY ARE OLD.&nbsp; HERE&rsquo;S THEIR CHANCE TO LAUGH THEIR WAY TO REALITY</strong></p><p>Baby Boomers are famous for denying they are old. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t look at <em>all </em>like my mother did when she was my age,&rdquo; they boast on their way for a six-hour hike. &ldquo;My children have no idea how cool I am,&rdquo; they pronounce. &ldquo;Seventy is the new thirty-five,&rdquo; they chant.</p><p>Baby Boomer women have a particular challenge in accepting the fact that they are not twenty &ndash; or at least forty-five. They burned their bras fifty years ago and some are enjoying their second wave of marijuana use. They&rsquo;re also grandmothers &ndash; but the &lsquo;cool&rsquo; version.&nbsp; Therefore they can&rsquo;t believe they&rsquo;ve become invisible to the rest of society or that they will, at some point, will stop ruling the world. (They don&rsquo;t know they&rsquo;re not ruling it now.)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>HOW I LEARNED I&rsquo;M OLD gives those women an opportunity to accept their plight, laugh about their denial and be reminded of the serious benefits of aging.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>HOW I LEARNED I&rsquo;M OLD is a collection of humorous essays embedded with a smattering of serious insights. Together, they tell the tale of what happens when middle age mysteriously departs and old age claims its territory.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For this country&rsquo;s <strong>38 million BABY BOOMERS, </strong>topics like&nbsp;&lsquo;The New Party Game&rsquo; (counting wrinkles on other women&rsquo;s faces), the insulting arrival of chin hairs and the sudden inability to monitor personal opinions in the presence of strangers have universal appeal. So do chapters about &lsquo;Mean Girls&rsquo; in their seventies and the emotional legacy of mothers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The book is divided into sections; &ldquo;Mind&rdquo; &ldquo;Body&rdquo; and &ldquo;Spirit&rdquo;.&nbsp; Always with a comical overtone, it also delves into the more important benefits and realizations of the aging process; what friends teach us by example, who we miss most when they&rsquo;re gone and which values really matter.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A former regional media writer/producer and published poet, Romney Humphrey is a produced playwright Off-Off-Broadway, in California and the Northwest. She has won national awards for her media writing and producing. &nbsp;She, according to evidence in the book, is now old.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>