My Menopause Blog

This is my mom.
Born March 22, 1913, I’m told that she was 19 when this photo was taken. Mom died November 11, 1964. She was 51 years old.
I have no idea how she coped with menopause or her illness. I was just a little girl during a time when adults kept children in the dark […]

Should my career in blogging not work out, I may attempt to start an outdoor adventure company for menopausal women - with a focus on cold weather activities - for the menopause relief advantage. As you see, I’ve already started to get myself accredited.
The fuzzy type more or less reads: Having demonstrated the initiative […]

Here’s what I remember about this moment in time.
I’m coming to the end of my 6-week trip – a trip that took me up, down, across and around from New Delhi to the southern tip of Kerela. It’s just past dawn in this ‘can’t remember the name’ medium sized India city and we’re waiting for […]

With my fair complexion and light hair, I had the ’stand out like a sore thumb’ cache of a rock star to the kids I met in India. It made no difference what city, time of day or situation, if there were children about my girlfriend and I would be surrounded.
There were three key questions […]

India is verdant ground for anyone with a camera. Everywhere I turned I saw photo opportunities - so many so that I eventually burnt out and stopped snapping pictures all together.
I have no idea what this woman is selling but there were thousands of people just like her crammed onto side-streets, sidewalks, train station platforms […]

I paid this New Dehli woman for the privledge of taking her photo. It was hard to know who all the children were but she seemed to be in charge of the very excited crew.
One of the growing concerns in India is how the longer life expectancy of today will impact the health of menopausal […]

This is me on the first day of a weeklong safari into the Serengeti.
I was lucky. Besides bringing a few sarongs, one dress and my black, knit yoga pants - I had nothing safari appropriate to wear on my nether regions. My sweet man bailed me out of my somewhat unfortunate situation by lending me […]

This is me in 1988. Due to the ridiculous belief that I would remember the details of this photo for all eternity, and the meno-reality of my current recall, said details are now somewhat sketchy.
I spent 8 months trekking across Canada, on to Hawaii, then New Zealand, over to Australia, back to California, up to […]