Where’s the freelance documentary crew when you need one? This weekend offered up some good material, a mini study in contrast: “Non-Mom and Mom.” The protagonists are two great friends who have known each other&hellip
Signs of Progress
An Unexpected Life
Something remarkable happened last Friday. During a deeply personal conversation revolving around making sense of infertility losses — and other equally light topics (NOT!) — I didn’t shed a tear. This was a first. There&hellip
Bad Girls of Infertility Land
There’s a scene in the movie The Commitments (one of my favorites) when a rag-tag group of would-be down on their luck Irish musicians decide they need a touchstone to help them connect with their&hellip
Show & Tell: A Colorful Life Returns
There was a time when I was young and naive. I looked at life through rosy-colored glass. My life was colorful. I was the quintessential Pollyanna, which is why coping with infertility has been doubly&hellip
Calling All Warriors
war·ri·or Pronunciation:ˈwȯr-yər, ˈwȯr-ē-ər, ˈwär-ē- also ˈwär-yər n. 1. One who is engaged in or experienced in battle. 2. One who is engaged aggressively or energetically in an activity, cause, or conflict You know who you&hellip
An Infertile’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Instead of this New Year’s resolution: Have carefully timed sex for procreation. Make this one: Indulge in long-forgotten carnal pleasures with your significant other whenever the spirit moves you. Instead of this New Year’s resolution:&hellip
Fragile Dreams, My Stove Vent and Anticipation
Dreams of our future home life became intertwined with our IVF expectations. When I put my home remodel in the context of infertility I found some poignant parallels. Family Dreams So, the family dreams started&hellip
Not Sure How I Got Here…
…but I’m in a pretty good place right now. This despite having an older laptop stolen from a back room in a week when roofers were crawling all over our house, new doors were being&hellip
Show & Tell: You Call This Stress?
I woke up this morning with a very cold nose. That’s because our furnace has been switched off during this part of our remodel. The king-sized bed where I lay hidden under the covers was&hellip
An “Ah Ha” Moment
It took a 2,400 mile trip back home this weekend, sitting in the bedroom where I once spun hopeful, cotton candy plans for my future, to make me see that I have spent the better&hellip
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