Sydney Altman is middle-aged, a child psychologist, a lawyer, and the mother of three sons, one husband, and numerous pets. She began updating "Mother Goose Rhymes" while driving carpools and running errands in her minivan. A suspicion that laughing might be the only way to age with grace, and outlive her children's adolescence, kept her rhyming. She lives with her family in Massachusetts .
Having laughed their way through many of life's hurdles, Sydney Altman and Zoe Lazar, two middle-aged women who have been best friends for forty years, decided that the best way to approach the undeniability and undesireability of aging was to keep laughing and get others to join.
Mother Goose Tells the Truth About Middle Age, A Collection of Wise and Witty Poems for Adults