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Gonepausal, by Gail Forrest
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27 million American women are currently in some stage of menopause. What? The major life change that our mothers didn't talk about except under cover of darkness and only with their image in the mirror? Well, baby boomer women have never been shy to talk about formerly taboo topics and now that we are all reaching the age of menopause, we are going to bring it right into the daylight. And we are going to find humor in it. Meet author Gail Forrest of Chicago, an art dealer by trade and a writer with a glass of wine in hand. In 2007, Gail created the blog she called gonepausal to share her oft-cranky, American Princess view of what she was experiencing as she went through menopause. Memory loss, sagging dull skin, lifeless hair, sleeplessness. A cranky attitude and lack of sex drive.
I'm not going crazy, she told herself while going through all of the list of symptoms above...I've gonepausal.
Gonepausal is the book that will redefine the way baby boomer women look at what's happening in their lives and helping them to ease through it with a sense of humor.
According to Gail, you've got to talk about it and laugh because you can't pay your way back to 40 and no amount of money will buy you out of - or around - this major life change. With a wry and interesting take on her daily life, she's able to find the humor in menopause and is writing for a growing audience of women who are living with the symptoms. And also for the men who love them -- or at least are trying to figure out what is going on with them.
Covering topics like dating a "mature" man in her entry, "Call 911 and Get a Husband;" relationships with parents, in "Dad, Poor Dad, I've Caught Him Watching Porn and I'm Feeling So Sad" and "The Pause that Refreshes;" restaurants, "I Love Wine and to Whine" and even reading, "I Hate the New Yorker."
Then there's the favorite, "I Climbed Mt. Everest in My Kate Spade High Heels." Who would have thought that pink, 3-inch heeled pumps would be the difference in a successful household fix-it?
With the attitude that to fully enjoy life you have to laugh at yourself, Gail looks at the world around her through the oft-cranky eyes of menopause, taking aim at TV weather forecasters with evil in their heart, at bartenders who can ruin a woman's night with one word - ma'am, and even at her laptop computer that she swears is possessed.