| Description |
xxiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
A collection of stories from women who have survived the trials of menopause offers support, comfort, and advice for women who are going through it. |
| Contents |
Menopause Musings / Lorraine Susan Mace -- Acknowledgments -- Changing / Lisa L. Newkirk -- Introduction -- Share with Us -- The Menopause Blues / Valerie Jeanne Palmer -- 1: MENTAL-PAUSE: Up a Tree / Mary Jo Fullhart ; I'm Melting! / Janet Hall ; Feeling Better / Brenda Nixon ; A New Routine / Sally Kelly-Engeman ; Fuzzy Logic / Caroleah Johnson ; The Hormone Patch / Louise Kelman ; Menopause Strikes Fear / Sherrin Willis ; A to Z / Karen Alexander ; What Amy Did / Joyce Stark ; The Aztecs Are Coming! / Connie Parish -- 2: FRINGE BENEFITS: Presto-Change-O / Jacqueline Michels ; It Starts with an M / Judy Epstein ; Chinny Chin Chin / Shae Cooke ; Best or Better / Vicke DeCoster ; A Time to Remember / Maggie Lamond Simone ; A Little Blurry, That's All / Nancy Bennett ; Go with the Flow / Nancy Withers ; A Case of Mistaken Identity / Terri Reinhardt ; Today's Forecast: Very Dense / Jane Wiatrek ; Keep Looking Up / Shannon Woodward ; Lost in the CD Aisles Diane Dean White ; Oh Lord / Patricia Lorenz -- 3: IT'S TIME: No More Babies / Sally Friedman ; Accepting the Inevitable / Ava Penington ; Scary Numbers / E. Mitchell ; The Pinup Girl / Joyce Newman Scott ; Living In the Hot Lane / Ferida Wolff ; Enlightenment of a Spandex-Clad Eavesdropper / Mary Eileen Williams ; An Ounce of Dignity / Terri Reinhardt ; A Short Trip to Mentalpause / Marianne LaValle-Vincent ; Growing Older / Kathy Whirity ; Unsinkable / Sherri Langton ; Age is Just a Number Dayle Allen Shockley -- 4: YOU'RE NOT ALONE: A Slice of Life / Kathy Reed ; The Day I Joined the Club / Valerie Porter ; A Thanksgiving Prayer / Michele H. Lacina ; Menopause, Mommy, and Me / Barabara Elliott Carpenter ; Wrinkled Anticipation / Marilyn Haight ; Living with a Woman Possessed / Joe Rector ; Take a Midlife Chance / Lisa Wynn ; Mom and the Menopause Booth / Donna Rogers ; Pass the Peas, Please Linda Leary -- 5: IN THE NAME OF LOVE: Hey, Baby / Ferida Wolff ; Sweet Advice / Beverly Walker ; Mom Must Be Dying / Genevra Bonati ; A Husband's Love J / acqueline Seewald ; License to Complain / Linda H. Puckett ; God, I'm Shvitzing! / Lawrence D. Elliot ; True Love / Tena Thompson ; Raging Hormones, Raging Tears! Christine M. Smith -- 6: A SECOND HELPING OF MENTAL PAUSE: Burn, Baby, Burn / Jacqueline Michels ; Wanted: One Inner Crone / Harriet Cooper ; Snow-Capped Estrogen / Gladys Martin ; I'm Not Going / Rachel S. Neal ; Menopausal Moments / Terri Duncan ; To Error Is Human / Barbara Wenger ; Keep the Change / Albert Van Hoogmoed ; Poor Clyde / Bonnie Nester ; Keeping Abreast of Change / Debra Simon ; Menopause Revenge / Connie Parish -- 7: WHO TURNED UP THE HEAT?: To Fan or Not to Fan / Ginger Kenchel ; The Adventures of Swamp Woman / Ferida Wolff ; Hot Flashes and Promises / Marjorie Woodall ; It's a Manopause Thing / Nancy Bennett ; Ďj̉ Vu / Cinda Crawford ; Wine Cooler / Gladys Martin ; Half a Mile from Hades / Tommy Polk ; Highs and Lows / Kim A Hoyo ; Comforting Dreams / Cliff Johnson ; Flashes of Hope / Judy Anderson -- 8. THE NEW ME: A Half Century Yet to Go / Jean Stewart ; Fifty Already? / June Williams ; Granny Pants Elizabet / Bussey Sowdal ; Momentarily Mature / Sallie Brown ; Red-Hot Mama / Harriet Cooper ; Old Is New Again / Sylvia McClain ; Keep Your Chin Up! / Jeanne Pallos ; Midlife Lift! / Beverly Spooner ; Middle-Aged Blues / Karen Gaebelein ; Indian Summer / Pat Nelson ; Blessed Indeed / Michelle Mills ; Weeds in My Garden Jan Morrill -- Supporting Others -- Who Is Jack Canfield? -- Who Is Mark Victor Hansen? -- Who Is Dahlynn McKowen? -- Contributors -- Permissions. |
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Menopause -- Popular works.
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Middle-aged women -- Health and hygiene -- Popular works.
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Menopause -- Anecdotes.
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Menopause (DNLM)D008593
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Middle Aged (DNLM)D008875
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Women -- psychology
(DNLM)D014930Q000523
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Menopause. (OCoLC)fst01016245
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Middle-aged women -- Health and hygiene.
(OCoLC)fst01020420
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| Genre/Form |
Popular Work (DNLM)D020496
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Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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Popular works. (OCoLC)fst01423846
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Anecdotes.
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| Added Author |
Canfield, Jack, 1944-
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Hansen, Mark Victor.
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McKowen, Dahlynn.
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| ISBN |
9780757305818 |
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0757305814 |
| Standard No. |
9780757305818 51495 |
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