See that girl? That's proof of life. I got up and put on makeup and a nice shirt and did a show at a venue in Nashville last night. You may say, what's the big deal, Amy? Isn't that your job? Yes it is, I'd say, but it took Herculean effort yesterday to just get…
What it’s like to be on the verge of 55 with a 4 year old.
In about 3 hours, I will turn 55 years old. That's old enough for AARP to send me discounts. It's older than my mother was when I was living in New York City for those 20 years. I don't want to say it's "OLD" but the number feels old to me. Although I don't feel…
New Year
Happy New Year to all my friends, I hope all of you have had moments of beauty in this holiday season. I’m tired of people saying this blank “I hope you’ve had a GREAT holiday” because for many of us, this one (or all) are a challenge. For those of you who did have a…
Been a long time, been a long time…
Hi my friends over here at Menopausal Mommy. I have been absent for almost a year. Things in my life have been, well, challenging, shifting and I've been waiting to start writing again until I felt like I could bring an open heart to y'all. Just know, it's been a season of great change, great…
Sourdough Starter
Not sourdough. But my first homemade bread. January 2022 Late to Pandemic Pandera Panorama of bread baking, I guess. It seems for a while there everyone was baking bread, cultivating things I'd never heard of like sourdough starters (which sounded like a kombucha starter, which always sounded like drugs to me). I spent the first…
New Year, New Year
I'm more partial to the sad holiday songs, the sad New Year's songs. What's that one by Dan Fogelberg? It's major/minor kind of sad story song about a long lost love. "Same Ole Ange Syne" (I doubt I spelled that right)? I hate turns of anything. I'm really bad at change. I hang onto things…
The Immaculate Reception
Has anyone seen the movie "Diner"? It's one of my favorite movies, and not just because the director tends to set his movies in my birth town of Baltimore. There's this beautiful scene before one of the characters gets married, where the bride-to-be is put through a 'football test' and has to come up with…
“TUCSON” A NEW RECORD
Hi all, This is a bit off subject. I've got a new record coming out in January called Tucson. The songs were written while I was dealing with depression and trauma. All the things I've been open about here on these pages and in my book. I'm really proud of this record. For the next…
Maiden, Mother, Queen, Crone
I am pretty sure I had my first hot flash about two years ago during breakfast at my In Laws' house. I wasn't sure, but I felt prickles of heat up and down my neck and beads of sweat around the hairline at the top of my forehead. A flush. It was gone as quick…
On Tuesday
a sketch I did after a therapy/meditation session last summer..it's what I saw and what I saw in my meditation.. I woke a few days ago with a tightening of my chest, a kind of yawn I couldn't catch, that wouldn't complete. I've had this before, but this time was worse. I felt like I…
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