1/7/10 Hi, so here goes....I've looked forward to hot flashes since I was in my 30s. Whenever I tried to share my thoughts on the matter, I was met with the same response "what are you, nuts?" The older I got, the older my circle of women, the more vehement the response. Why not? Seriously, why not? It just doesn't make sense. Our bodies are hosts to growing humans, we bleed to the cycles of the moon, we feel, we love, we touch, we smell, we hear, we sense, we perceive, we intend and yet, we're supposed to be passive when fire courses through our being?

So again I say why not? Seriously, why not? We are glorious beyond description. When you ponder the wonder that is the human body, how can we accept that we are only meant to bear"this misery."