Spotlight: “The Crone’s Guide to Menopause”

Menopause. I don’t know what it is for you or the women in your life, because everybody’s different, but for me it’s variously like hot-flashing night (and day) sweats, being stung by swarms of bees while running naked across hot lava, foundering in a well of indifference, or being buried and left for dead.

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Ruth Halpern is a writer, artist, and spoken word performer. She teaches storytelling in public schools and private workshops, writes novels, short stories, children’s books, and memoirs (all as yet unpublished), and writes and illustrates “narrative art.” You can read her essay, “Twelfth Birthday,” on sexual harassment here. You can see more of her work at www.ART.ruthstory.com. Ruth lives in Oakland, California with her husband and daughter.

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