I Feel Great About My Hands

Nora Ephron struck a chord with I Feel Bad about My Neck. Women's advocate and acclaimed writer Shari Graydon set out to counter the supposed downhill slide-inspired grief by inviting notable women of age from across Canada -- all over 50 -- to provide an alternative perspective.

I Feel Great about My Hands is a collection of stories, essays and poems celebrating life, and embracing the changes, discoveries and wisdom that come with age. This colourful anthology includes:

• Gemini award-honoured funnywoman Mary Walsh on playing a "big, loud, opinionated old bag"
• Celebrated poet Lorna Crozier's hilariously graphic "My Last Erotic Poem"
• Val Napoleon, an adopted Gitksan member of Cree heritage applying Aboriginal trickster tales to modern attitudes about aging gracefully
• Shari Graydon herself focusing her "face-half-unwrinkled" attention on the hands that have helped her nurture life and express creativity and joy

Royalties from the book will benefit Media Action, an organization dedicated to challenging the under-representation and sexualization of women in the media.