Why you should be happy you're getting older
For Shari Graydon, it was a newspaper column that got her fired up enough to write a book. “A columnist I read regularly had devoted her entire column one day to cataloguing the litany of the wrinkle-prone areas on a woman’s body and included areas of a woman’s body that had never occurred to me to be concerned about,” says Graydon, the Ottawa-based women’s advocate and author of I Feel Great About My Hands…And Other Unexpected Joys of Aging.