April 7, 2022

Empty Car

My car is empty. No longer do I have to scrawl excuses for being absent on hastily ripped out notebook pages or hurriedly sign a consent […]
March 24, 2022

It’s a bloody affair

Getting a period as a young girl was a badge of honour, when I was growing up. It was something that you could boast to your […]
March 17, 2022

Call me anything else but that

Sometimes I have an aversion to being called Mummy and if you are a mummy, particularly a fortysomething perimenopausal mummy like me, you know exactly what […]
March 8, 2022

She ain’t heavy, she’s my sister

“I wish more women realized that helping another woman win, cheering her on, praying for her, or sharing a resource with her, does NOT take away […]
March 3, 2022

Menopause, Mom brain or Memory Loss

How I am to know which is it? I shudder to think memory loss so I will keep telling myself it’s a combination of menopause and […]
February 26, 2022

It’s getting hot in here

It’s getting hot in here, I’m taking off all my clothes. No, I’m not singing Nelly’s smash hit nor am I being vulgar. Quite frankly, there’s […]
February 21, 2022

The Big M

Menopause or the Big M as I like to call it was not something that I thought about much as I got older. I knew that […]
February 15, 2022

Knees don’t lie

I was watching a dance video recently and admiring the moves and flexibility of the dancers. Exhilarated by the music and the adrenaline I got up […]
January 27, 2022

Who gets to keep Mom?

This is a niggling question for older children with aging parents.  Hard questions need to be asked but are we prepared to ask them.  Let’s face […]