October 13, 2016

The Quasi Pause Saga Continues: Me and My Hysteroscopy

October 13, 2016/ Martina Clark

Yes, my saga of Quasi Pause continues, but at 52 after nearly 25 years of living with HIV, I truly never thought I’d be dealing with these issues because I didn’t think I’d even be alive.

Don't Meditate - Have a Cocktail Instead

October 05, 2016/ Eve Vawter

We all know how important it is to relieve stress. People meditate, go for a run, contort their bodies into the wounded peacock, and go for long walks on the beach. But what if we all relaxed like our parents did instead?

October 03, 2016

Rage Against the Dairy Machine: Me & My Middle-Aged Dairy Allergy

October 03, 2016/ Guest author

For 55 years, I scarfed down Ben and Jerry's and nachos and bad pizza like the rest of you, until one day I realized the disconcerting truth: Milk products were making me sick.

September 29, 2016

When It's Not Love You Want

September 29, 2016/ Guest author

A revelation: love my body and what it can do and feel with another person without an exacting exchange.

September 27, 2016

My Aging Body & My Aging Bed

September 27, 2016/ Alex Lee

My aging bed — and I call it that because it was getting old and it was AGING US with it — was past time for a change.

September 26, 2016

When Silence Is as Deafening as Sound

September 26, 2016/ Cameron Gearen

Inside these flashbacks, sound is the way it is in a swimming pool: absent and deafening at once. Shouldn't a little girl who is being harmed cry and holler and bellow?

September 12, 2016

Why Having a Hysterectomy Was the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Me

September 12, 2016/ Eve Vawter

Reasons I love not having a uterus? Let me count 'em down.

September 08, 2016

I'm 46 and I Think I Should Have My Act Together by Now

September 08, 2016/ Eve Vawter

Remember when you were younger? You would try to imagine what you would be like when you reached a certain age. You would have accomplished ____, or would know how to do _____, or would look a certain way. Yeah, I've not reached any of those points yet.

September 06, 2016

Beyond Fight or Flight: When You're Not the Textbook Version of PTSD

September 06, 2016/ Guest author

Sometimes from my high perch, I'd try to help her. I'd tell her to "Run." "Get up." "Kick." "Scream." But she would remain flat and paralyzed.

August 29, 2016

Surly Sally Tells Us 6 Reasons Summer Sucks

August 29, 2016/ Guest author

Smell you later summer — my fat arms are swaying as I bid you good riddance!

August 25, 2016

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Getting Sober but Were Afraid to Ask

August 25, 2016/ Guest author

A (not so very) long time ago in a galaxy (that seems) far, far away, I was a knock down, puke-in-your-fish-tank drunk.

August 25, 2016

Being Fat, Bullying, & Radical Self-Love: According to My 13-Year-Old

August 25, 2016/ Eve Vawter

Imagine if someone constantly insulted you for existing too much.

August 18, 2016

'Quasi Pause': The Medical Term I Invented for Blowout Bleeding Before Menopause

August 18, 2016/ Martina Clark

Quasi Pause is the opposite of menopause. A last hurrah of the lady parts. One final bender for the vajayjay. The period that WILL. NOT. STOP.

August 17, 2016

Super-Easy Foolproof Steps to Becoming a Cougar

August 17, 2016/ Eve Vawter

19: Three words. Contour, contour, contour. Contouring hides your old lady jowls.

August 11, 2016

When You're a Week Late and Middle-Aged

August 11, 2016/ Martina Clark

I'm a week late. Not on my rent — for my period. I'm never late. Am I pregnant or is it menopause?

August 09, 2016

The 45 Thoughts You Have After Getting a Post-Mammogram 'Call Back'

August 09, 2016/ Guest author

I leaped up from the table like a Rio-bound sprinter. “Hello? Hello? I’m here!” I yelped, as the caller proceeded to repeat the message, adding that “further X-rays and a possible ultrasound” were needed.

August 08, 2016

I 'Made' My Millennial Visit a Sensory Deprivation Tank & Here's What Happened

August 08, 2016/ Eve Vawter

Alright, I didn't 'make' him. I basically said 'Why would you want to waste your cold, hard cash on doing this?' His answer? 'It's lit.'

August 01, 2016

Things My Grandmother Taught Me: Mercurochrome and Vaseline Heal Everything

August 01, 2016/ Karen Miner

Scrapes, cuts, abrasions, burns, bites… really anything that shouldn't be wrong with your skin, Mercurochrome could cure.

July 28, 2016

What I've Learned: A Trauma Survivor Navigates Surgery

July 28, 2016/ Cameron Gearen

From my gurney in my stupid hospital gown, with my hair bunched into a blue shower cap, I said, "Yes! If you all just treat me like I'm three, that will be exactly right!"

July 21, 2016

What You Don't Know About Being a Kinky Sub and a Middle-Aged Woman

July 21, 2016/ Guest author

At 66, he's unafraid to share what matters to him, his love for me and us, his past pain; at 46, I’m equally unafraid to let him know how our kinky sexual play moved pain through me, out of me.

Dr. Feelgood