Beyond Words

Women around the world love this positive, witty, fearless, verbal, and visual journey through the beauty and joy of menopause.

Women around the world love this positive, witty, fearless, verbal, and visual journey through the beauty and joy of menopause.

Ripe unflinchingly delves into a subject that is still largely taboo, and confronts head-on the fact that women 'of a certain age' feel discarded and undervalued merely because they have entered the next normal stages of life—perimenopause, menopause, and all that lie beyond. Ripe is visually rich and varied.

Illustration, photography, and found material are woven throughout to reveal to a reader the myriad ways of looking at, dealing with, and understanding society's feelings—and more importantly her own—about aging, maturing, ripening. These images enrich the conversation, deepen the wit, and drive home the point that this phase of life is redolent of an underappreciated beauty that is much more than skin deep.