Where were you when you got your first period?

We remember getting our first period as vividly as our first kiss or the birth of our first baby.

If you were fortunate enough to have been prepared, it probably wasn’t too traumatic.

Women have managed this spontaneous cyclical physical programming since the dawn of time. Some feel it’s a blessing, most, a curse.

Is our culture to blame?

June roses, wild & free, resilient, beautiful, with their delicate sweet fragrance, always take me back home, to the hills where I was raised and to memories of my father's strong, scarred, hard-working hands, presenting a freshly-picked bundle from the bushes in our pasture, where they faithfully bloomed every year, in time for my birthday.

So much of this memory parallels life…