MUDDLE-PAUSE
“I entered middle age all at once,” writes Marina Benjamin in her book, Middlepause. “There was no real menopausal process, only a Before and After.”
A writer living in London, Benjamin is hunched over her laptop viewing old pregnancy photos. There’s a photograph of her against the blank backdrop of the bathroom wall, with her belly, as she describes, taking the “starring role”. And while she quietly reminisces, she superimposes the new version of her onto the old. “I barely recognise myself as the same person catalogued in those pictures… The years have
