Why I started Hotflash inc

If you are new here, and even if you are not, this will explain a few things

All of these pics are from a photoshoot I did with my friend Kelly Taylor in London, Ontario in 2022, near the end of an epic perimenopause. When I didn’t have the slightest idea what was happening to me and was barely keeping it together.

Sometime around my early 40s, things started to get really weird.

I began having nightmares, crazy vivid ones in which I was dying of something undefined and needed to take a pill to stay alive.

Night after night I would jerk awake, gasping, thinking I had forgotten to take the pill. That I would die if I didn’t take it immediately.

Daytime wasn’t safe either: I’d just be sitting somewhere, minding my own business, often having fun, and a sheet of fear would just rip right through me. The fear was attached to a horrible thought, one that never made any real sense.

For example, one frosty February morning back in my hometown in Canada, I dropped my toddler niece off at daycare, taking off her little snowsuit and boots, stowing them, and holding her hand …