Shay 
I am taking a detour across all my platforms today to talk about aging—specifically, this journey we call perimenopause. For the unknowing, the Cleveland Clinic describes perimenopause as “…the transitional period before menopause. During perimenopause, levels of estrogen, a key female hormone, start to decrease. You may begin having menopause-like symptoms, such as hot flashes …
In this season of despair, it is easy to get sucked into feeling that we are without hope and that we lack power and agency to create change. Especially as we intake a daily diet of the horrific, which only seems to be ramping up. I was reminded, though, of the power of our voices …
I have called Maine home for the last 21 years, and certainly I have often been ambivalent about this state for a number of reasons. Today, though, I write as a Mainer with a heavy heart. One of the state’s nearly one-and-a-half million residents now linked together in our collective sorrow, as we find ourselves …