Five Signs Your Hormones Have Gone Rogue

By Christy Heitger-Ewing / February 10, 2026 /

If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s (perhaps even 30s) who no longer feels like yourself, you could very well be in perimenopause. Perimenopausal symptoms are odd, annoying, and surprising, and they all leave you asking, WTF? Read on for a handful of examples. Everything itches. Have you ever watched monkeys at a…

Five Ridiculous Plot Twists in the Perimenopause Saga

By Christy Heitger-Ewing / January 28, 2026 /

If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s (perhaps even 30s) who no longer feels like yourself, you could very well be in perimenopause. Perimenopausal symptoms are annoying, odd, and surprising, and they all leave you asking, WTF? Read on for a handful of examples. Your memory has gone to shit. We can all…

Shit You Find Yourself Googling During Perimenopause

By Christy Heitger-Ewing / January 14, 2026 /

When you enter perimenopause, you won’t know it initially. You just start experiencing weird ass symptoms that confuse, annoy, and trouble you. Some may completely freak you out. What do you do when you can’t make sense of something? You Google it, of course! If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s (perhaps even…

The Three Poopy Ps of Being a Woman: Periods, Pregnancy, & Perimenopause

By Christy Heitger-Ewing / December 12, 2025 /

I was ten years old when I got my first period. Unlike the character in Judy Blume’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, I was not eager to start menstruating. Of course, no female gets a vote on this. Although my period came early in life, it took no time at all to…