In honor of us menopausal types, my poem, “The Scale”:
Do you cringe
When you deliver
The bad news to me,
Or is smirking
More your style?
Someday, Scale,
I hope you’ll speak
Kindly, firmly, fondly,
With words since
Your numbers fail me.
Are you a scale girl?
A waistband girl?
So lucky you don’t need to measure your weight in any way at all?
Or so carefree, it’s not a concern?
Barbara Younger blogs from her home in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Along with Friend for the Ride: Encouraging Words for the Menopause Roller Coaster (http://friendfortheride.com), she writes books for children and adults. She lives in an old house with her husband Cliff. and collections of everything from dolls to buttons to bookmarks. She's the mother of two grown daughters and the grandmother to one adorable baby boy!