• Journeying Through Midlife

    Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff

    March 4, 2014

    I’m having an interesting conversation with a friend about sweating! In case you have spotted my theme for the Write Tribe Festival of Words – it’s all about women and journeying through midlife.  So what’s that got to do with sweating you ask? Ha ha…Now’s a good time for you get this fact – that one of the ‘joys’ of perimenopause and menopause is night sweats. Yes, getting up in a pool of sweat in the middle of the night is kind of not fun! 😉 I always believe that life has a great way of balancing itself and one…

  • Blogging, Writing & Creativity - Journeying Through Midlife

    Bloglovin

    March 3, 2014

    Today is a day for some bloglovin’ over at Write Tribe. I decided to feature 4 blogs here that I’ve been reading off and on over the last year. Cairn Rodrigues’ The Light Stealers Song No, despite how close our names are, we’re not related. I admire Cairn for her honesty and the way she takes on life! Cairn is a former professional chef who has taken to blogging and writing. Despite going through a series of personal difficulties in the past few months, Cairn has bravely published her book, The Last Prospecter. Follow her on Twitter: @CairnRodrigues   Carol…

  • Journeying Through Midlife - Wellness - Women and Women's Issues

    Getting Good Advice

    March 2, 2014

    I’ve used this piece of 9-sentence fiction to hint at the whole issue of menopause and how little information men and strangely, even women have on it. A woman not understanding the changes in her body and emotions could experience a lot of fears and her husband too would be completely perplexed. There’s nothing like getting good advice from a doctor about this phase of life. And it’s important that both partners completely understand this. Getting Good Advice “Listen to me”, she screamed as he walked out of the door.“I’m going out to get a drink with the boys,” he…