Media reports about Minnie Pauz, a cartoon character bringing humor to menopause

Featured on CNN, ABCnews.com, PBS' "Art of Women's Health", and in TIME and FORBES Magazines
Also seen in The New York Times, The London Sunday Times, USAToday, LA Times, Detroit News and MORE Magazine.

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"Dee Adams is revolutionizing the way
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"If you're looking for a humorous answer to menopause, then visit www.minniepauz.com. Created by Michigan's very own local cartoonist, Dee Adams, the website provides information about menopause and other women's health issues along with a large dose of laughter. In addition, the website features a menopause message board to help you realize you're not the only one going through the many challenges women face during menopause."

Laughing your way through
menopause—and aging
By ROBIN MCMACKEN, Special Sections Advertising Writer

Cartoonist Adams, 57, of Oxford, Mich., is also passionate about finding — and tickling — the funny bone in menopausal women through her Minnie Pauz cartoons, which can be viewed at www.minniepauz.com.....

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Valerie Harper, Actress and Author of "Today I am a Ma'am" says:
"One of my favorite websites.....Click on and laugh your socks off....
you'll learn something too..."

Media Coverage

TV Appearances:
Channel 4 News (NBC) Detroit, MI
WXYZ Channel 7 (ABC) Detroit, MIl
PBS in Texas
ABC Toledo, OH
WPTV Channel 5 West Palm Beach, FL
WBRC Fox 6 Birmingham, Alabama
13 News Asheville , N.C
KFYR Bismarck, ND
CNN, National
WCPO, Cincinnati, OH

Magazines

TIME Magazine May 2005

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MENOPAUSE MOVEMENT
Reported and Web Produced by: Carol Williams
Updated: 09/30/02 11:48:46

THE WORD "MENOPAUSE" BRINGS TO MIND "HOT FLASHES, WEIGHT GAIN, AND ALL KINDS OF NEGATIVE REALITIES FOR WOMEN.

WELL THERE'S A MOVEMENT AFOOT TO LIGHTEN UP THE SUBJECT.

CHECK OUT THIS NEW POP-UP BOOK DESIGNED TO HELP WOMEN PULL AND SLIDE THEIR WAY THROUGH MENOPAUSE. IT STARS A MENOPAUSE FAIRY AND A CHARACTER CALLED "MISS MAPERIOD." YOU CAN FIND IT AT MENOPOP.COM.

THEN THERE'S "MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL" TO HELP WOMEN SING THROUGH THE SYMPTOMS.

AND AT A WEB SITE CALLED "MINNIE PAUZ," THEY'RE TRYING TO FILL 250 CABINS WITH MOSTLY MENOPAUSAL WOMEN FOR A CRUISE TO BEAT THOSE HOT FLASHES.

Newspapers:
   The Los Angeles Times
   The Detroit News
   The Cincinnati Post (see below)
   The Sacramento Bee
   News Day
   Associated Press

Online Interviews:
ABCNEWS.COM
Third Age
About.com
Suite101.com
Digital-Women

Press Releases:
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"In late 1998, Dee Adams hit the world by storm. This new cartoonist found an eager market for her cartoon, Minnie Pauz. The character is a middle-aged woman who is dealing with the issue of menopause." MORE

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"Signing onto the Minnie Pauz Web site at www.minniepauz.com offers HRT - not hormone replacement therapy, but Humor Replacement Therapy. The site features Minnie, the Rebel with the Pause, who takes her humor with a dose of seriousness and offers a free club where women can find information, a book club, health news, guest articles and more. It's not just fun and games, but it does give immediate access to 150 cartoons when you sign up."

Celebrity Guest on National Women's Health Resource Center's HealthyWomen.org site

The Cincinnati Post
"When all else fails, visit the Minnie Pauz site to look at everything from the lighter side of life. There are jokes, cartoons, stories and guest articles with enough honest humor to get you though the toughest time. There are testimonials and inspiration and even a section for men only. This one's a fun visit for the ''patient'' as well as the family. As the site slogan says, ''If you don't get it, you ain't there yet!'' by Jan Perry, freelance writer for The Cincinnati Post

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