Long-time attorney Brendan Hare felt extremely anxious at the prospect of retiring. As he struggled to find a way to ease that anxiety and find purpose in this new phase of his life, he searched for books that might offer helpful advice. There were books about finances, impersonal academic treatises, and simplistic one-size-fits-all retirement primers. He found them sorely lacking -- so he decided to create the very book he would have liked to read. Hare traveled around the country, speaking with a wide cross-section of older Americans, some retired and some still working. The result is his new book, From Working to Wisdom: The Adventures and Dreams of Older Americans, an inspiring compilation of 46 short oral histories revealing diverse personal experiences and delivering valuable life lessons to help enhance the readers' later years.