I Can't Believe I'm Old: Essays on aging
Janet Torge
May 2026
As Janet Torge arrives, stumbles and finally lands solidly on the upper reaches of life, she explores how other senior citizens are grappling wIth this predicament—and adds her own comic voice with such gems as "My Love of Sitting," "The Belly Fat Trap," and "This Ain't No Time for Puffed Sleeves." The stories she tells in I Can't Believe I'm Old will not help you live longer, nor will they promise you either health or happiness. What they will do is show you that this last phase of life can be full of surprises—and allow you to crack a smile or two along the way.
Janet Torge lives in Montreal and is always looking for new adventures. She's been a television documentary producer, a prenatal teacher and Birth Doula, an overnight talk-show host at CFCF Radio, traffic reporter and Radio Noon host at CBC Montreal, a columnist at the Montreal Gazette, and co-founder of the first rape relief centre in Canada. She recently trained as a Death Doula and is also the author of Dear Sam, a book about the death of her son.
