Moving through sections that are roughly chronological-teens, twenties, thirties, forties, fifties-Of a Certain Age explores the unfurling of a life, from loss of innocence to contemplation of death, from bemusement at life's gaffes to bewilderment as life's invariables slip away. Tricia Gates Brown reminds us to tune in-to the natural world, to the transcendent, to relationships, to the decades and epochs of one's ordinary life, with wonder and courage. Reverence, at any age, is no where but here.