My little red book

Oh, brother, 1993 / Louise Story, Cos Cob, CT Good-bye green thumb, 1942 / Thelma Kandel, New York, NY Burning secret, 1966 / Suzan Shutan, East Haven, CT Fear of fourteen, 1991 / Erica Jong, New York, NY The lie, 1948 / Shalom Victor, Santa Cruz, CA Germany, 1942 / Nina Bassman, Queens, NY The artist, 1968 / Nina Bentley, Westport, CT Bloody Bat Mitzvah, 2002 / Sarah Rosen, New Haven, CT Going to x-tremes, 1982 / Michele Jaffe, Los Angeles, CA Blood relative, 1976 / Sondra Freundlich-Hall, San Francisco, CA Too wet, 1994 / Rafia Guatemala : advice from a cheesemaker, 1953 / Flori, Chicago, IL Mehn-su, 1992 / Amy H. Lee, Berkeley, CA Can I just skip this period? 1971 / Patty Marx, New York, NY Silence, 1930s / Elizabeth Sicilliano, Cleveland, OH A jealous Vajayjay, 1981 / Nancy L. Caruso, Cardiff, CA Into the woods, 1964 / Sharon Gerhard, Novato, CA Loss and gain of responsibility, 1969 / Zannette Lewis, Richmond, VA The Ming period, 1999 / Aliza Shvarts, Los Angeles, CA Andy Roddick's serve, 2003 / Jen Bashian, Los Angeles, CA An invisible period, 1981 / S., New York, NY

Oh, the "joy" of menses! 1987 / Megan McCafferty, Princeton, NJ The blusher, 2002 / Elli Foster, Lancaster, PA Hot dog on a string, 1993 / Ellen Devine, Wallingford, CT Chairman Mao's period, 1967 / Xiao Ling Ma, Nanjing, China LOL {.}, 2005 / Zoe Kauder Nalebuff, New Haven, CT Blood on the tracks, 1972 / Patricia E. Boyd, Pittsburgh, PA Ink blots and milk spots, 1987 / Krista Madsen, Brooklyn, NY Glamorous, but not for long, 1981 / Jennifer Baumgardner, New York, NY I know you are not there, God. It's me, Kate, 1990 / Kate Zieman, Toronto, Canada The curse, 1939 / Lola Gerhard The simple vase : part I, 1997 / Laura Wexler, New Haven, CT The simple vase : part II, 1997 / Rebecca Wexler, New York, NY Let down, 2007 / Tatum Travers, Chicago, IL Desperately delayed, 1970 / Judy Nicholson Asselin, Westtown, PA Proper disposal, 1993 / Catherine Conant, Middletown, CT Mattress pad, 1990 / Yulia, New York No gushing for me, please, 1970 / Monica Wesolowska, Berkeley, CA The slap, 1972 / Ilene Lainer, New York, NY Rescued by a refugee, 1941 / Pearl Stein Selinsky, Sacramento, CA The wrath of the gods, 1970 / Jill Bialosky, Cleveland, OH Locked in a room with Dosai, 1962 / Shobha Sharma, Chennai, India Simple as salt, 1967 and 2008 / Jacquelyn Mitchard, Madison, WI Señoria, 1980 / Kica Matos, New Haven, CT Can I sit on his lap? 1916 / Henrietta Wittenberg, New York, NY Barbies and biology, 1996 / Aysegul Altintas, Istanbul, Turkey An excerpt from "Letters" / Maxine Kumin, New Hampshire

My support system was a box, 1977 / Bonnie Garmisa, Guilford, CT Jaws, 2004 / Lily Gottchalk, Wallingford, CT Dying in the land of Dionysus, 1972 / Mary Hu, New Haven, CT Step toward womanhood, but with stepmom, 1983 / Lisa Selin Davis, Brooklyn, NY Yodelay uh-oh, 1982 / Cecily von Ziegesar, Brooklyn, NY The white dress, 1971 / Kathi Kovacic, Cleveland, OH Up at the chalkboard, 1979 / Emilia Arthur, Accra, Ghana If men could menstruate / Gloria Steinem, New York, NY A puddle, 1991 / Laura Madeline Wiseman, Arizona Out of the closet, 1968 / Joyce Maynardd, Mill Valley, CA Staining the Ciroën, 1970 / Catherine Johnson-Roehr, Bloomington, IN Cranberry sauce, 1993 / Barclay Rachael Gang, Miami, FL Tsihabuhkai, 1962 / Juanita Pahdopony, Lawton, OK The dream, 1994 / Annie Sherman, Chico, CA Operation menstruation! 1998 / Jennifer Asanin Dean, Hamilton, Canada Crushed leaves in Kenya, 2006 / Thatcher Mweu, Nairobi, Kenya Where's my belt? 1979 / Meg Cabot, Bloomington, IN My second first period, 1977 / Bernadette Murphy, Los Angeles, CA Memory : day 1, 1973 / M. Eliza Hamilton Abegunde, Evanston, IL A coup at the napkin dispenser, 1960 / Linda Lindroth, New Haven, CT Downward dog, 2004 / Marian Firke, Chicago, IL The harness, 1961 / Deo Robbins, Santa Cruz, CA The Von Trapps and me / Debby Dodds, Los Angeles, CA Dress appropriately, 1974 / Bita Moghaddam, Pittsburgh, PA The earache, 1975 / Dr. Miriam nelson, Medford, MA Progressive parenting, 1993 / Nancy Gruver and Joe Kelly, Duluth, MN

Showdown at the HoJo, 1968 / Linda Greenberg, Chicago, IL

No longer in little league, 1993 / Moira Kathleen Ray, Portland, OR

Euro Disney, 1992 / Jessy Schuster, Miami, FL

On horseback, 1960s / Margaret Whitton, Martha's Vineyard, MA

Not getting it, 1980 / Rachel Vail, New York, NY

The mermaid, 1974 / Sara Hickman, Austin, TX

When you phoned home from California to tell me it had started / Penelope Scambly Schott, Portland, OR

Peanut butter and chocolate milk, 1959 / Kathrine Switzer, New Zealand and New York, NY

Tamora Pierce saves the day, 2006 / Madeleine, New York, NY

Slippery in the stairwell, 1965 / Tamora Pierce, New York

Down under, 1983 / Jenni Deslandes, Sydney, Australia

Time for prayer, 2006 / Fatema Maswood, Cromwell, CT

The right place at the right time, 1952 / Leigh Bienen, Evanston, IL

Blood month, 1979 / Sandra Guy, Paris, France

Late bloomer, 1998 / Emily Hagenmaier, Los Angeles, Ca

History sometimes repeats itself, 1970 / Marianne Bernstein, Philadelphia, PA

Twelve-step program, 1946 / Marcia Nalebuff, Newton, MA

Flow, 1983 / Tonya Hurley, New York, NY

You always remember your first / Carla Cohen, Washington, DC

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