This chapbook is a series of essays within a blending of personal memories of growing up and the author's later real-life adult experiences. All of the parts are framed within bends in the whispers of life's passages along the rocky roads of getting older. Each vignette is crafted into a fabric of truth without self-pity and mixes pathos within a reality of dark humor to reach a point where the past moves to finally fall away. And as decades advance, a strong, independent, confident woman moves to her defined old age.