My Menopause Blog

According to the Career Section in today’s Globe and Mail, “a 70-year-old grandma was hired as a bouncer at a Berlin brothel.”
I’m trying to imagine what she looks like. And it’s kind of nice to know that the post menopausal job market still offers some interesting opportunities.
Sue Richards
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Let’s face it. Menopause and its various stages lasts long enough that it could easily be considered a career.
With that thought in mind, I cracked open the Career section of my daily newspaper to seek advice for the meno-career girl.
Just as I thought, the section was stuffed full of hot tips for the hotter working […]

The funeral for Mrs. O was one of the easiest I’ve attended thus far. Guess it’s harder for the dearly remaining to be confused or indignant when someone dies from ripe old age.
Dying from old age is not something I’ve ever imagined for myself. Instead I expect to make headlines. The chances of me going […]

Photo: Taken in India in 1995.
Since my abduction by Planet Peri-Menopause aliens eighteen months ago, I have started running into walls. These are not walls made from Red Tape created by burocrats. I’m talking about the real lathe and plaster McCoy’s - and me - hitting it off.
Usually I clip the corner as I […]

I’m now starting my fourth month of Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Cream and I have nothing bad to report.
The toughest part has been remembering to slather the stuff on twice a day, which I chock up to the Menopause Remembering Game. This old dog has trouble recalling why she’s standing in the room she’s in. […]

Besides pregnancy, postpartum and PMS, there are 3 other times in a female’s life when hormone fluctuation is most pronounce - menopause, the terrible teens and between 3 and 4 year’s of age.
This is one of my three-year-old girlfriends having a mood swing meltdown. Moments earlier she was calm. Immediately following this big whaling outburst, […]

I lied.
Not intentionally I hope you realize. I certainly intended to write a post yesterday. But the post breast calendar launch loose ends that needed to be tied up loomed large and the new threads that were woven required attention. In short, breast season is upon us, which means that unless I keep my eye […]

Peri-menopause has exposed my hidden introvert and revealed the extroverted me to be somewhat of a fraud. I suspect some inner wisdom knew to use the power of my youth to be bold, brave and brash despite the stressed out, knotted up feelings that came with that behaviour. But as fists full of my hair […]