As Director of Communications and Program Planning for the Rhode Island Department of Elderly Affairs, Larry Grimaldi wrote more than 600 newspaper columns and feature articles growing older. The columns regularly appeared in the state's daily and weekly magazines. After retiring in 2015, he began his second career as a Lifestyle columnist for PrimeTime magazine. Fifty Shades of Life, Love & Laughter contains many of these columns.

This is Larry's first solo publication. He has also co-written Wandering Across America and Cooking with Mammie with his wife Kathy, and edited the Children's Book, The Adventures of Fanny Pack Ray and the Family Vacation, written by his son, Benjamin Grimaldi.

Larry and Kathy, his wife of 50 years, live in North Providence, Rhode Island.