Hot Flashes is a collection of twenty personal essays and five poems by women writers on the experience of menopause.With its wide spectrum of perspectives both literary and personal, Hot Flashes does not seek to answer the question, "What should I do about menopause?" but rather, "What does it mean?" Janet Burroway tells the tale of the Goblin Obgyn. S. Holly Stocking describes going through menopause just as her daughter enters adolescence. Ione finds herself seeking solitude for the first time in her life. Catherine Reid ponders the significance of menopausal eyebrows. Marilyn Krysl discovers peace and joy in the acceptance of growing old. Each writer tells an individual tale of denial, acceptance, fear, or joy, but also traces a universal passage through the change of life.Rejecting the notion that the loss of youth and fertility means a condemnation to invisibility, the pieces here address the physical, emotional, and spiritual components of menopause in a way that only a chorus of voices can - and find new depths of wisdom and artistry in the process of change itself. Read Less