2. Keep singing. Sing around the house and in the shower."

That is what I've noticed: when I don't sing as much my voice sounds tinny and uncertain to me. Singing in the exactly perfect key for each particular song is much more important to me then.

I had a relatively easy menopause. Warm flushes but not hot flashes, and no dripping wet face. A friend of mine almost literally soaked her clothes during her 'special' moments. I was lucky.

I think of menopause as being a transitional thing as real and important as puberty all those years before but no more so. No one asks whether puberty has to be treated with hormones. Both are natural processes, neither is a disease, neither calls for extreme measures.

Menopause may cause or exacerbate mood swings- so did puberty. Don't you remember?