Description: When does middle age begin? Stacy Horn polled subscribers on Echo.com, the online chat room she founded, and got a bewildering variety of responses. She decided to explore matters on her own. Waiting For My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment you realize -- beyond a shadow of a doubt -- that some day the credits will roll on your life. There are all those things you haven't done yet. There are all those things you have and wish you hadn't. In the battle against time, a frontal attack is the best strategy. Horn plunges into the underbrush of abandoned cemeteries and descends into crypts. She researches long-lost relatives, interviews the elderly, and learns all she can about the ghost haunting her apartment. No sign indicating the downward pull of things goes unnoticed. And yet life is irresistible. Joy, like music, rises. Fine, so death is unavoidable. There is so much to celebrate. Those diabetic cats, for starters. Here is a wonderful, quirky, refreshing memoir of hilarity and heartache: life at the mid-point of life.

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