Last week I had the unique privilege and honor to profile Lori Holden, author of the new book The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole. You may know her from her ever-amazing blog, LavenderLuz.com (formerly Write Mind, Open Heart) and her fantastic, holistic blog meme, Perfect Moment Mondays. We talked about all … [Read more...]
It's National Infertility Awareness Week and RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association wants all of us to join the movement. If you asked me four years ago if I would ever join a movement for infertility, I would have laughed heartily at the suggestion. But the truth is: it's the movement that's kept me going. But what does "joining the … [Read more...]
This was me three years ago: I's funny to go back and watch this video, to think about all the things that are different in my life now. The fact that we own a home instead of living in student housing where this was filmed. The three pairs of glasses I've gone through since then. Remembering, very distinctly, getting sushi with a friend … [Read more...]
You may have noticed that my website looks a bit different. That's half the reason it's been so gosh darn quiet around here; I've been very busy tinkering with all the cogs and buttons and levers that crank this site to life each day. I've been doing a lot of thinking about this space and the community that has surrounded me. I've written much … [Read more...]
National Infertility Awareness Week is coming... are you ready? More importantly, are you ready to Join the Movement this year? NIAW has always had a special place in my heart. It's when I first "came out" about my infertility to a larger group of friends and colleagues, just over a month after I was first diagnosed in 2009. In 2010, it … [Read more...]
It's been quiet around here lately, no? *casts a guilty glance* I know. I know. To get you quickly up to speed: the Knish is just fine. He's very active and I believe he has waged a war against my belly button from the inside. I think he knows that I really don't want my innie to become an outie and he's on a mission to pop it out, one … [Read more...]
I do not have a tattoo. You might think that this is because I'm Jewish and that Jews with tattoos can't be buried in Jewish cemeteries. Turns out, that's actually Jewish urban legend. Still, the Torah technically forbids that Jews get tattoos. But that doesn't mean I don't want one. When I was in high school, I wanted some cliched drama mask … [Read more...]
I love New Year's Eve. It's such a precarious, if invented demarcation between the old and the new, the past and the future, a sliver of the present in transition. For many, it's the tabula rasa, the turn of the wheel, a moment of both ending and beginning. How fitting that Janus, the two-faced Roman god who faces both his past and future, should … [Read more...]
What a year, folks! It's hard to believe that we're ready to kiss 2012 goodbye and ring in the new year in just a week. Even though it hasn't yet been a full year here at this website, it's been an incredible ten months here all the same, and I have each of you to thank for that! 2012 has been a year of experimenting: finding out what works … [Read more...]
Today is Giving Tuesday. Following on the heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday seeks to turn that holiday spending power into holiday giving power by focusing on organizations and non-profits making a difference in our communities. For this Giving Tuesday, I'm highlighting infertility-related … [Read more...]
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