Quirky and profound, individual and universal, Lende offers up short chapters that help us unlearn the habit--and it is a habit--of seeing only the negatives. She reminds us that we can choose to see any event--starting a new job or being laid off from an old one, getting married or getting divorced--as an opportunity to find the good. As she says, "We are all writing our own obituary every day by how we live. The best news is that there's still time for additions and revisions before it goes to press."