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Meryl Rowlands's avatar

STUNNING. In tears. Thank you for writing this and the beauty of it ALL. I will now go hug and thank my mum and every other wonderful wise hag in my life.

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James Bailey's avatar

Alissa, I won't pretend to relate to menopause. Period (pun intended).

But I love to relate to you and your writing. These two passages made me smile - for different reasons:

"Like most self-involved people, I oftentimes become acutely aware of injustice only when it spills itself all over my shirt." - So vulnerable. So honest. So real for most. And such a pithy and unique description.

"And to my mom, for all the advice and feedback, chatting with me on the phone as I distractedly shuttled a child to a sleepover, and then the next day as I sat in a hotel bar waiting for another child at a birthday party, where strangely the wall behind me was mirrored glass with Mrs. Dalloway’s opening pages etched into it; opening pages in which she alludes to menopause, without explicitly naming it, and a book that ends with a moment of utter joy as 52-year-old Clarissa looks across the street and into the window at an older woman wrapping up her day." - So poignant. So real. So honoring of your mother.

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