Caroline Paul

My name is Caroline Paul, and I'm a writer.

And my expertise is that I am postmenopausal.

I'm 61 years old.

Called Tough Broad, from boogie boarding to wing walking, how outdoor adventure improves our lives as we age.

You know, I think when I was young, I was really interested in metrics.

So I wanted to be the first.

She's specifically this like very adventure-y kind of lady.

Sometimes I was the first down a river.

I was the first to mountain bike through the Bolivian Andes.

It was almost like someone had like killed your dog and given you a weird acid drug at the same time for extended periods.

I was crying all the time and eating at weird hours of the night.

The other thing that kept happening is that I would go to parties and I wouldn't remember anybody's face.

And all of this went on for like... I think it was like four and a half years.

Jeez.

But I just remember around 57 suddenly realizing that I felt really different.

There was no more sudden crying jags.

I remembered everybody's name, everybody's face.

Oh, now I'm in menopause.

Narrowing life, not opening it up.

We have to watch our brain.