by Stacey Tompkins | Sep 27, 2023
“I had no idea I could feel so alive,” Laura tells me when we meet at a brewery in my hometown of Bozeman. I’ve never seen my friend like this–so raw and euphoric. “I always thought my life was an 8 or 9 on the happiness scale, but now I...
by Stacey Tompkins | Jul 29, 2022
Several years ago, two challenging events occurred at the same time: 1) I entered full-on menopause, and 2) my two daughters left home for the wider world. In order for this stretch of time to be deemed “The Trifecta of Misery,” I just needed my husband to announce...
by Stacey Tompkins | May 3, 2021
Not too long ago, I received this email from my 76-year-old mother: “Want to come visit for a few days and have some fun? Your father is out of town, and I haven’t seen you in ages.” This wasn’t the first time she and I had gotten a wild hair together. How could...
by Stacey Tompkins | Aug 28, 2020
So this is how menopausal sex used to go for my husband and me. We’d be in the heat of the moment and suddenly I’d cry out, “Ouch!” My poor sweet husband’s eyes would get wide and panicky. “That feels like road rash all up inside there,...
