A positive take on the menopause
I’ve written about the menopause before here, about the benefits of this part of our life as older women. When I saw a couple of friends who had read the article they said ‘who are you trying to kid?’ or words to that effect. They couldn’t see the positives as they were too wearied … Read more
Path out of domestic drudgery
Here and there
Over half term we spent a night away in a very mediocre hotel in the very unromantic Telford. When we got home we walked the dogs and came back home and I cried.
At the hotel I see what I want to eat, here I see what I have to cook.… Read more
Autumn Pruning and hibernation
Body Talk – Listening to the Seasons
I think I’ve spent a lot of my life disembodied; without my body.
Not that I haven’t had a body of course, just that I think for many years my body was merely the machinery which was used to carry my mind around. The only real time that I noticed my body was to pick … Read more
Suffering, wisdom and compassion
A couple of people got in touch after the last blog wondering how and if they should tell their story. These on one hand are normal people, raising families, going to work, living life; nothing special. On the other hand, these are people who have really lived through some hard stuff and come out the … Read more
Celebrating the menopause
I’ve just started my period.
Is that too much information?
You see, the thing is, I’m really pleased to have started my period because I’m getting to ‘that age’, the age where soon I won’t be having periods, but where I might soon be having hot sweats, insomnia, headaches, lapses of memory, mood swings, loss … Read more
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