Maybe this time we could be intimate, as in secrets – not necessarily of the boudoir, but as in dreams and fantasies, fears and angsts, above all, passions. What are the passions – the forces, the causes, the “special enthusiasms” (to borrow a phrase from life’s passages guru Gail Sheehy) – that are driving women in their midlife? And if one of those passions happens to be sexual, how lucky can one get?