“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 […]
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.” ― Mandy Hale The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass Think about your life in the future. Imagine that everything has gone as well as it possibly could. You have worked hard and succeeded at […]
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 […]
More than once, when I talked to someone about this journey and answered the question “is your husband going with you?”, the response was something like this: “and he let you do this alone??”. Sometimes this would be followed by a comment about how the speaker (always a man) would never let his wife do […]