Making my Hor Moan

Years ago, I watched an Oprah show that talked about menopause, well really it talked about how women get CRAZY during menopause. They showed videos that women had sent in of themselves, crying, screaming and almost at their wits end because they felt like they were...

The Curious Case of the Missing Teeth

Hello again from the UK…I hear those of you in Oklahoma are being pounded by a nasty winter storm. I am not sorry to miss that, although as I write, it is 5a.m. here, I am in bed, feet on a hot water bottle and my nose is as cold as a Labrador’s. I want to say a...

Back home to Blighty

Families are a strange breed. Yet it seems to be consistent no matter what country, what culture, perhaps what planet that they live in. I have left Gump to fend for himself in the good ole USA, as my mother was recently put in the hospital. She was placed in a...

Deep Thoughts….

Sometimes I think that all women should become actresses during the years that they go through menopause, because this is the only stage in my life that I can ever remember being so easily brought to tears, and then complete and utter rage, all within the space of a...

The Eagle has Landed

the saga continues……. Have you ever been through Immigration/Passport Control and Customs? If you have, then you already know it is rather like being a sheep. One is herded into zig-zaggy queues and lines, and then everyone stands there trying to not to...

Rule Brittania

I am going through this weird phase at the moment, I am obsessed with wanting to be British. I am British, so fortunately I can do that part, but along with it I am craving all things British (except big noses and thin lips, oh and black socks with tennis shoes)- I...