Day: July 18, 2020

A New Dawn © lynette sheppard It’s that time again – time to peek back at the year coming to a close and to look ahead to creating a brand new year. I used to forget to look back at how much I had accomplished, enjoyed, and lived each year. I was much too focused Read more…

Remember those cartoons with the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other tormenting some hapless soul who is struggling to make a decision? Usually the battle is between something she wants vs something she should do. Well, I can relate. I have my own little menopause advisors perched on my shoulders who Read more…

The weather has just turned here in Lake Tahoe and it’s colder than a witches thorax outside today. The lake is frothy whitecaps on rough indigo, the aspens are shaking like crazy, and I know just how they feel. Autumn IS a bit of a shock after the long summer and one can’t help but Read more…

Recently on one of the health websites where I am privileged to be an “expert” on Menopause, www. wellsphere. com, a member raised a question about bleeding for over a month solid. Of peri- menopausal age, she was under- standably worried. Most of us think of menopause as a time of skipping or diminishing periods Read more…

Zion NP © lynette sheppard Early in my Menopause transition (euphemism for hellish maelstrom of horrifying hormonal events), so many things bothered me that I couldn’t keep count. As the preliminary WTF freakouts of perimenopause and volcanic upheavals of The Big M are now mostly in my rear view mirror, I realize that some irritants Read more…