By now, Mary Elizabeth Ryan expected she’d be a grandmother who baked cookies for her grandchildren after school. Instead she lives alone and her grandkids think she’s a movie character they talk to on the computer. A revelation during a tense dinner date sets her life spinning in a completely new trajectory. East Lansing is a story of aging, sex, true love, heart-breaking loss, non-traditional families, college football, days-of-the-week panties and the amazing resilience of older women.