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…