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Permalink Reply by Kamy Wicoff on June 30, 2009 at 9:44pm

So your post is so raw and so funny, and yet all I can think of is that...

You should connect with Fredi Kronenburg, a researcher and scientist to whom I was first introduced at an Advisory Council Meeting for Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She works on menopause and has an incredible perspective on how its study has been gendered, and how distorted so many of the findings have been, and at the same time some fascinating concrete data about what it actually IS. I can get you in touch with her, but to see a short profile click here. Really she gave an AMAZING presentation to the Advisory Council just a few months back.

Also thinking, though, that this site represents a rebirth for me, post divorce, and I feel that rare rush (like Dostoyevsky reprieved from the firing squad) of getting a second chance at life. And SHE WRITES is so much a part of it.

So happy to see you last night!! And lovely that even your writing here is fresh. :)

xxx
Kamy

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Permalink Reply by Amy Ferris on July 1, 2009 at 7:54pm

kamy:
thank you thank you.
thinking about blogging. all so new to me.
i love SHE WRITES, it's inspiring, encouraging, educational, funny, quirky, brilliant. so delighted to be a part of it, especially now. it gives me courage. much easier for me to hide in my room, tucked away, behind (or next to) my laptop. writing. this gives me an opportunity to jump.
really, thanks so.
and yes, would love to get in touch with fredi.
ps: did i send you the bookjacket? it's so wonderfully charming & unique.
xoxo

Kamy Wicoff said:

So your post is so raw and so funny, and yet all I can think of is that...

You should connect with Fredi Kronenburg, a researcher and scientist to whom I was first introduced at an Advisory Council Meeting for Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She works on menopause and has an incredible perspective on how its study has been gendered, and how distorted so many of the findings have been, and at the same time some fascinating concrete data about what it actually IS. I can get you in touch with her, but to see a short profile click here. Really she gave an AMAZING presentation to the Advisory Council just a few months back.

Also thinking, though, that this site represents a rebirth for me, post divorce, and I feel that rare rush (like Dostoyevsky reprieved from the firing squad) of getting a second chance at life. And SHE WRITES is so much a part of it.

So happy to see you last night!! And lovely that even your writing here is fresh. :)

xxx
Kamy

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Permalink Reply by Daphne Uviller on July 2, 2009 at 11:16am

See, here's why fiction is so great. In my last novel (Super in the City), a character DID marry a fictional (though thinly disguised) George Clooney! Because who among us, facing menopause or not, hasn't had that thought? Amy, I just checked out your book on Amazon, and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on it. - Daphne Uviller

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Permalink Reply by Amy Ferris on July 2, 2009 at 7:26pm

and this is why i LOVE she writes! meeting great smart women who think and write about the same (thinly disguised...) george clooney. where else? i mean, really, where else?
thank you for checking out my book - yay oh yay - and so delighted & thrilled to be connecting with you.



Daphne Uviller said:

See, here's why fiction is so great. In my last novel (Super in the City), a character DID marry a fictional (though thinly disguised) George Clooney! Because who among us, facing menopause or not, hasn't had that thought? Amy, I just checked out your book on Amazon, and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on it. - Daphne Uviller

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