by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 4, 2018 | Sex
The image of the older woman who is sexually confident and wants more adventure in bed is quite common in our culture. Think of the “cougar” stereotype, that older woman who is looking for a younger man to satisfy her. Recently, when I was flying back from...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Jun 6, 2018 | Healthy Living
With thanks to Estrogem for sponsoring this post.Hot flashes are awful.Even your hands sweat. Your wrists get all wet. The back of your neck gets clammy. You want to strip in public–which is generally not a good idea.You start to forget things. I’m...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | May 29, 2018 | Healthy Living
Last Friday I spent the day recovering from our three week trip to Australia. Oh, and I turned 48. Yep. I’m getting older. Menopause is getting closer. The hot flashes are real. And so I thought I’d devote this week to talk about some of the challenges of...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Nov 3, 2017 | Doing Life Together
How do you set boundaries on how much help you can reasonably give to aging parents? Okay, last week I wrote a post on a whim about how parents should really try to help their adult children who will be caring for them one day, by moving closer, getting rid of stuff,...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 27, 2017 | Family, Healthy Living, Homemaking
If you need your adult children to eventually care for you, then that should factor into an equation NOW. I’m still a little tired from our impromptu trip out west last week, and I’ve been thinking about something for a while now that I’d like to...
by Sheila Wray Gregoire | Oct 16, 2017 | Sheila Snippets
So 7:30 on Saturday night Keith and I were eating dinner, getting ready to go watch season 2 of Dark Matter on Netflix while I finished casting off for a skirt I’m knitting. Then we got a phone call. My father, who has advanced Alzheimer’s, was in the...
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
