Reading and Q&A with author Sherry Deren
Thu, Mar 28
|NYU Bookstore


Time & Location
Mar 28, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
NYU Bookstore, 726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, USA
About the event
Sherry Deren was trained as a social psychologist and spent most of her career conducting and directing
federally funded behavioral research studies related to drug use and HIV. After retiring from NYU as a
Founding Center Director and a Visiting Research Professor, she began a blog to express some of her
thoughts and experiences related to aging: humorandaging.com. She has been enjoying the many cultural
and other benefits of NYC and exploring the freedom and choices that retirement makes possible. She
lives in Manhattan with her husband, is a devoted mother and grandmother, and has a large extended
family Artwork for the cover and the sketches inside Sherry's book were created by her
granddaughter, Juliana Suárez-Lipton, a Junior in High School.
Not Done Yet: The Humor of Aging is an illuminating exploration of the
funny side of aging as experienced by author Sherry Deren, a retired
social psychologist who spent most of her career directing federally
funded behavioral research studies into HIV and drug use. Made up of a
selection of her blog posts (humorandaging.com) of the last four years,
Sherry’s anthology is a rich mixture of how a sense of humor and some
common sense can help us cope with aging and even enjoy it.
While covering many of the usual challenges and pleasures of aging,
including staying healthy, deciding what to save or throw away, and
managing changing family relationships, Not Done Yet also takes the
reader into new uncharted territory worthy of senior consideration:
hearing aids that play nice music when somebody compliments you and
automatically turn down the volume when confronted by an angry or
critical person; designer lenses that block out messy street garbage and
distort the faces of people whose advice is both unwanted and
overbearing, and dental implants that when tapped deliver refreshing
mouth wash, savory tastes and other culinary delights. “Rather than simply
look to restore the previously youthful functioning of our senses,” says the
author, “why not just use technology to enhance those senses that have
declined with age.” Why not, indeed!