Even though every path led to menopause, it was like oxygen to me—everywhere yet invisible. And it continued to remain that way thanks to my infinite capacity for distraction. It beckoned one afternoon as I read an announcement for a lecture on cryonics. This is the science of freezing body parts (especially heads) as part [...]
Confessing All Failures, Imagined and Otherwise
Looking back, I could have saved myself a few years of suffering, which is exactly what denial got me. But that would have been what a sane woman would do and being hormonally deprived, I was off my rocker. So I doubled up on the denial and stuck to my original plan. Pretend like [...]
Denial is the Key to Surviving Menopause—Right?
There’s no question the Madonna dream was a desperately needed wake up call. It launched me on an adventure in understanding menopause—an adventure otherwise referred to as stalking the Pink Elephant. If the previous two years were any indication, I probably would have continued to do nothing, because, you see, I was in a deep [...]
