Cathi Hanauer is this week's guest as Annie and Pam continue to explore what Ashton Applewhite calls aging while female . Cathi is the author of three novels and the editor of The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood and Marriage and its follow-up 14 years later: The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier . She notes that we have a new freedom as we get older.