“What will you give birth to this year?” At the end of 2017, a friend asked me this question when I told her I was having surgery to remove my fallopian tubes, finalizing our decision to remain childfree. I may never give birth to a living child, but I can birth ideas, creative work, projects […]
For most of my life, I assumed that I would be a mother, raising a wild, creative crew of young feisty children, my house filled with noise and love. Since our earliest days together, Ben and I would talk about our future kids, joking about how they’d better have musical talent, arguing over how many […]
Next Sunday will be the two year anniversary of the day I found out I was pregnant for the second time, 15 months after our first miscarriage. Six weeks later, we would learn that our baby had died, and two weeks after that I would miscarry a loved, wanted child for the second time. The […]
I discovered the Beat Infertility podcast almost two years ago, and spent months binge listening. Episode after episode, I learned about various infertility diagnoses, heard from women who had found success and those who were still on their journeys, and listened to a reproductive endocrinologist talk about procedures and answer listener questions. A few weeks […]
“Anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around, you’re traveling in order to be moved.” – Pico Iyer On Saturday morning, October 15th, I hit the road for the last time. I was almost home. After the past few days’ events, I was feeling even more grateful […]
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?- Mary OliverBefore, I was an achiever. My #1 strength in strengthsfinder, I was always working towards something. When I reached my goal (which I always did, finding ways around the roadblocks, when I fell, picking myself up to try […]
“Energy is the living, vibrating ground of your being, and it is your body’s natural self-healing elixir, its natural medicine.” – Donna Eden, Energy Medicine for WomenSedona is known for four energy vortexes, where the subtle, swirling energy of the earth is unusually strong, enough to be felt by people nearby. The vortexes felt like legend […]
One day, after years of struggling with a diagnosis, with the emotional and physical ups and downs of treatments, exploring family-building options, and learning to protect your heart, you will realize that you have made it to the other side of the mountain that you climbed, that now you are on a winding path taking […]
When Andi Fairbanks, a dear friend and member of my online tribe, asked me to be a guest on her podcast I was shocked and honored that she considered me among her list of everyday extraordinaries, people who follow their passions and change lives. For those who are visiting this site for the first time, you […]
