I grew up in a family of four girls. I often think about the days that we spent with my Dad looking into the hood of our car, learning how to change a light bulb or a whole switch and many other things that boys were “supposed to learn”. My father always made sure that…
A quick Google search reads as follows: “Menopause is the time in a woman’s life when her period stops. It usually occurs naturally, most often after age 45. Menopause happens because the woman’s ovaries stop producing the hormones estrogen and progesterone. A woman has reached menopause when she has not had a period for one year.” (medlineplus.gov) But isn’t menopause…
The phone rang, and I knew. And even though I have played this day in my head a billion times growing up, it just seemed so new and unrehearsed. After all, who doesn’t imagine their parents dying when they are kids? (and sometimes when we are not kids at all). We all know that it…