Honest writing on perimenopause and menopause — the questions, the answers, and the conversations in between.
In which Sheila has a meltdown, meets the difference between forcing and allowing, and discovers that the pause button works on more than remote controls.
Read the postOne of midlife's great diagnostic questions — and why the answer might, inconveniently, be both. On hormones, clarity, and the woman who has discovered that "no" is a complete sentence.
Read the postThere was apparently a meeting where my body made several decisions about its future. I was not invited. On recognition, hostile takeovers, and getting reacquainted.
Read the postI just don't happen to remember what it was. On the noun that leaves the building mid-sentence, and three of the most underrated words in women's health: "Wait. You too?"
Read the postMenopause happens in one person's body. It does not have the courtesy to stay there. Notes from a marriage where both of us are going through it — with no control group.
Read the postA field guide for partners in the eggshell years — on asking before fixing, not blaming everything on menopause, and the two words that matter most.
Read the postWe wanted to call it Freya. The goddess, it turned out, was extremely employed — so we built a name of our own and smuggled her in anyway.
Read the postOur whole philosophy in five words, courtesy of our friend Lori — and the story of why you'll never find a podium between us.
Read the postThe first question almost every woman whispers when perimenopause begins — and why the answer changes everything about what comes next.
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