Menopause is often a list of bad symptoms or the butt of jokes. But can it also be a source of liberation? Darcey Steinke, author of "Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life." ...

About halfway through “Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life,” the American novelist Darcey Steinke describes lying down for a massage at a Russian bath house in Paris and ...

Darcy Steinke’s ‘Flash Count Diary’ is an unflinching look at what happens when her fertility ends — and something unpredictable takes over When you have a baby in your 40s, chances are you are hopped ...

Last week Mandy, 53, wrote a life-affirming account of embarking on the menopause. Here, in the first of an occasional column, she says it's not all bad news. Reasons to be cheerful. No more period ...

My hot flush may well have had something to do with the fact that I had just put on a padded jacket and woolly hat ready to step outside into a biting wind - or it may have been yet another menopausal ...

Menopause is having a moment right now, and I hope it becomes a movement. I’m a 50-year-old perimenopausal woman and none of my doctors prepared me for this important milestone. When my children were ...