About me
GONEPAUSAL author, entrepreneur, humorist, dating expert, and blogger Gail Forrest (www.gailforrest.com) knows how to make you laugh – at her, at yourself, at others, and especially at her sharp, provocative and memorable declarations (and videos) about online dating after fifty, makeup, fashion, books, menopause, aging, and navigating social media for the first time as a baby boomer, among other contemporary topics.
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Bio in Gail's own words:
I’m cheap, hate to shop and have anxiety about driving more than 100 miles alone. I can’t order a $10 glass of wine without getting a small rash. The tollbooth gives me buyer’s remorse as flinging in a $1.50 reminds me of the free back roads. Shopping makes me antsy, and after 10 minutes rifling through a clothing rack I desperately run for the nearest exit with some poor sales girls running after me.
I love sports and politics, although discussing politics has become more like a duel to the death than a conversation these days. Sports is good neutral territory and I don’t get into too many fights talking about college basketball or football, although ironically it is getting more difficult to find a man with whom to watch games.
Is there anything that doesn’t bring me anxiety? I love to ride horses, this is anxiety proof except when the jumps get too big. I have been aiming at them for over 38 years and still cherish every minute in the saddle. I am now an ex-runner as I feared for my knees and the possibility of developing a limp in my old age. I have switched to weights, walking and yoga. I am very bad at yoga and more than once felt like running out of class screaming. I love my new little rescue dog Tulip.
And a little bit about my book GONEPAUSAL --
Gonepausal, the book, is a collection of Gail's humorous and wry musings and observations of daily life as she has experienced them as a middle age, menopausal woman. Whoever put the “pause” in menopause, she says, was mistaken. There’s no pause, it’s just a new path to navigate full speed ahead.
In the book's 91 short stories, Gail takes on the topics that affect women throughout this part of their lives. There’s dating in mid-life and beyond; the treacherous and often self-illuminating relationships with aging parents; shopping or wanting to shop and not having enough money for great new clothes and shoes as well as buying beauty products that promise youth and deliver nothing but a big price tag.
Gonepausal is for women, who will find a friend, a kindred spirit and someone who helps them to laugh. They will find a soul sister, discovering that they aren’t alone with their cranky days, minute-by-minute mood changes, thinning (but hopefully still radiant) hair and hot flashes. And Gonepausal is also for men, who will find answers to the questions they have about the women they know and love, answers long missing.