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Seeing through the brain fog – dropping another clanger

December 24, 2019 By Ellen 2 Comments

Yesterday I was lucky. I noticed in the nick of time that the theatre tickets were for a matinee not, in fact, for the evening show. We got there, breathless, and earned, as a bonus, an extra evening of family board games. So, yes, lucky. But it does happen to me quite often these days. […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: accident, brain fog, disaster, FTS, juggling, menopause, My Life, rage, Something happened in my life

Short story: The Third Age

November 5, 2018 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Climacteric NOUN 1 A critical period or event ‘the first major climacteric in 21st-Century poetry’ 2 Medicine The period in life when fertility and sexual are in decline (in women). ‘most women do not experience significant psychological problems at the climacteric’ 3 Botany The ripening period of certain fruits such as apples, involving increased metabolism […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: feminism, fiction, fun, menopause, read, short story, women, writing

Menopause: A manifesto

May 15, 2018 By Ellen Leave a Comment

It should’ve been funny, but it wasn’t. My mood and the success of my day hinged on the presence – or otherwise – of my battery-operated fan – in my bag at work. The other day it wasn’t there, it was sitting in my lovely cool kitchen at home. Damn. I could feel the sweat […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, ageing, change, cool, feminism, health, hot flush, in the world, manifesto, menopause, My Life, on my mind, perimenopause, Sexism, symptom, taboo, women

Periods. Period. What should we call it?

January 28, 2018 By Ellen Leave a Comment

It’s a terrible cringe of a word – period. If a word ever wore a tight bun and kept its books in alphabetical order, it’s a period. This is the word that goes with the twee trickles of dyed blue water poured in gleaming ad-land laboratories. Period. Flow, stop. Period. We need something better. Humanity […]

Filed Under: family Tagged With: feminism, humour, in my life, menopause, menstruate, period, women, words

New year new snooze: Is smart sleeping even a thing and is it worth thinking about?

January 9, 2018 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Remember when sleeping was just a matter of lying down and shutting your eyes? I was brilliant at it – talented. My only concern was that I wasn’t particularly good at doing it on public transport or for all that long after the sun came up. But I could do it pretty much anywhere else […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, family, humour, in my life, menopause, My Life, nap, parenting, sleep, Something happened in my life

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