As I announced last week mostly via Twitter and Facebook, I’ve become Examiner.com’s Boston Infertility and Miscarriage Examiner. Essentially, I write about all things IF in the Boston region… and they’re paying me to do it! I’m rather excited about my first paid writing gig. While the articles may be a bit more locally focused than some of the broader things I write about here, I hope to keep the content fresh, unique, and approachable to all of my readers. One of the first things I’m planning on doing is a series of interviews with some of my recent new contacts I’ve made in the IF field here in Massachusetts.
I’ll always keep links the latest articles on the top right sidebar, but I’ll also start posting some teasers here with links to the full stories as well. So far I have two articles live: Infertility and its impact on mental health and Massachusetts Senate bill S485 impacts access to infertility treatment. If you haven’t checked them out, please do! And please feel free to retweet them and share them on Facebook as well.
You may have also noticed that I’ve started doing these “Read More” links on my main page. In an effort to streamline the look of my blog, I realized I write… a lot. And that’s a ton of dense text on the page. I figured the “Read More” hack cleans things up a bit (although it won’t retroactively do it for all of my posts, so it only really works with yesterday’s post). I’ve also started adding more pics to my posts, because, well- who doesn’t like pretty pictures? I’m also learning the wonderful art of photo attribution. It’s like learning APA or MLA all over again, so you may notice lots of photo credits from this point out. It’s my way of being a good web citizen.
Hope y’all don’t mind the changes around here as I start refining this blog. I’ll still post updates on our journey (like yesterday’s lengthy and stressful post, The Game of L-if-E), philosophical and motivational musings, and like the interview series I plan to post of Examiner, I hope to bring the same kind of current news and trends in the IF world as well to all of you here at this blog. This all relates to my bigger mission of continuing to be an advocate for infertility awareness as I advocate away through a variety of channels. The more ways I can spread awareness, the better.
(Photo by Erik Stabile via Flickr.)
How cool is it that the examiner is including a section on infertility! And even cooler that you got the gig! Congrats!
Good, good stuff. I will be going over to read the examiner.com stuff now.
I love the look of the blog now…YOU ROCK!!!!!
Sounds like fantatsic news. For those of us who've been enjoying your writing for some time, it is good to know you will be rewarded for it!
congratulations!!
Huge congrats on your Examiner.com gig.
This is great stuff! I really look forward to reading about your research and articles. Congratulations on your first paid writing gig – you rock!