The Wing: January 18, 2026

A Gift Card Winner, Mean Girls: Perimenopause Edition, and the Early Release of Never Alone

Mean Girls, Perimenopause Edition

I didn’t expect to encounter my first real bullies at fifty.

I was running an ad for my audiobooks. (An ad I pay Facebook Meta thousands of dollars a month to serve to my target audience of women over the age of 40.) It’s meant to help readers find my work. Instead, it’s become a magnet for cruelty. At first it was one co…