The beauty of an online magazine (or Ezine―what a crazy term!) is that you can go back and look at articles from weeks or months ago without trawling through a stack of back issues, only to recall that the one you wanted was used to light the fire.

This is just as well because sometimes we have articles submitted that are far longer than the ideal length for this type of magazine. We are then faced with a choice: either condense them radically, and lose valuable content, or divide them into parts. This week we feature the first of a two-part article that is well worth reading in its entirety. Janelle Fletcher explores the subject of intimacy, identifying some of the reasons we don’t enjoy the intimacy we would like to have in our relationships, and leads on to some positive actions to change this.

We continue Faith MacDiarmid’s Seven Weeks and Seven Steps to a New YOU. For those who want to get serious about goal-setting and making their dreams a reality, these steps need to live on the fridge door. You will see all of the previous five steps on the website.

Our three-part series on perimenopause continues with part two this week. Whether we women fly through this stage (smiling graciously at the tellers of tasteless jokes) or struggle daily (especially with the urge to murder said comedians), every woman experiences perimenopause, which is probably why there has been such a fatalistic attitude towards it traditionally. However, things are changing and researchers have identified many helpful strategies women can adopt for themselves. Most of them also have the added benefit of being good for your overall health.

Cheryl Megchelse’s May Makeover made me want to hit the shops, and I’m not really a shopper. So read with caution!