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I feel great about my hands : and other unexpected joys of aging
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- Summary
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Forty-one notable women, all over fifty, provide essays and poems about the discoveries that come from aging.
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- Creator
- edited by Shari Graydon
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Douglas & McIntyre, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781553657866, 1553657861
- OCLC
- ocn727353454
- "Forty-one extraordinary women over fifty revel in the benefits of maturity"--P. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Issued also in electronic format.
- How drooping breasts led me to a truck-driving life of adventure / Marlaina Gayle -- Back to school / Susan Delacourt and Susan Harada -- Why I colour my hair / Susan Mertens -- A club of one's own / Beth Atcheson -- Karate for Felix, tai chi for me / Liz Whynot -- A woman over the preschool age / Susan Musgrave -- No longer just acting / Mary Walsh -- Face it / Linda Spalding -- Rust / Lynn Miles -- Connecting (feminist) lines / Diana Majury -- Levity in the face of gravity / Renate Mohr -- Ways of seeing / Meri Collier -- Ghosts / Susan Lightstone -- My grandmother's skin / Val Napoleon -- Beauty redefined / Hélène Anne Fortin -- My last erotic poem / Lorna Crozier -- Cougars and spaniels / Lyn Cockburn -- The pleasures of an older man / Harriett Lemer -- Skin and bones / Maxine Matilpi -- The shady side of fifty / Constance Backhouse -- From feisty to respectable / Elizabeth May -- Finding my voice / Sharon Carstairs -- Struggling to become an elder / Judy Rebick -- Dinner tastes better than ever / Alison Smith -- Facing the void / Dawn Rae Downton -- At this stage : more wholly a fool in bright orange boots / Sheree Fitch -- Bump-her stick-her / Ann St. James -- Living beyond loss / Susannah Cohen Dalfen -- My colonoscopy / Gail Kerbel -- Of birthdays and bibliotherapy / Ann Cowan -- A work in progress / Bonnie Sherr Klein -- From zero to not quite so stupid / Frances Bula -- Turkey flap wisdom / Lyndsay Green -- It's all fine / Laura Robin -- The joys of mostly good enough / Heather-jane Robertson [sic] -- No country for old women? / Lillian Zimmerman -- It will be easy (and other poems) / Susan McMaster -- Kick the can / Sheila Deane -- Have genes will travel / Carol Bruneau -- I feel great about my hands / Shari Graydon