Katie Funk Wiebe writes about the many changes we face at midlife. She assures readers that change is normal at this time and need not be disastrous.Wiebe covers many topics, including forgiveness, loneliness, mentoring, women in the church, peace concerns, suffering, and growing older.

This book is about changing attitudes and intergenerational relationships--and about bringing all generations closer together. Katie Funk Wiebe challenges readers to listen to the voice of God urging them to stretch out and touch one another, whatever the age, to make peoplehood a reality.

Does retirement mean sitting in a rocker and waiting for death? Or desperately using cosmetics, plastic surgery, and youthful clothing styles in an effort to stay young? Katie Wiebe says no to both attitudes. In this book, the author talks in great detail about the journey of aging.

"Eightysomething", "Bald Heads and Purple Hair", and "Wednesday Is Humpday" -- these prayers and many more speak for anyone in the omega (the last letter of the Greek alphabet) stage of later adulthood. Without denying the aging process, Katie Funk Wiebe celebrates the reality that even as the physical body weakens the inner life can grow stronger.

"This memoir records Katie Funk Wiebe's search for identity as a woman left widowed with young children who becomes a writer and an early Mennonite and biblical feminist." "[summary]"--Provided by publisher.

Striking storylines and images fill this classic memoir of a young Mennonite's Russian-German heritage and her immigration to Canada. Beneath it all, Katie Funk Wiebe is on a journey, a trek not only from one country to another but from childhood to adulthood and back to embrace a once-distant past.