Pages, Stages, and Rages

Sorry for the radio silence. I was trying like crazy to finish my book before the writing conference this weekend. I didn't. I'm...

Dear China Mommy, Our daughter will be turning six in a few weeks. She decided she wants a bowling party and put her foot down about who w...

My grandmother had a gift. Maybe a curse. She could attend a wedding, engagement party, even watch a couple who were dating and know, know...

I refuse to give in to despair. I have to hug a four-year-old and help her to make sense of the world around her. I have to do it with a s...

It's been a bit since I've talked about the Pages part of the blog. I've been rereading a lot. I tend to do that when I'm ...

We are finally in the last stages of this interminable election. There are quite a few women I know who are voting for Trump or a third part...

When I think of being Jewish, of the High Holidays, I always think about the Al-Chet. I allude to it, I think about it. For the sins which...

Yesterday was the Tony Awards. Since Lotus came home we have watched the beginning of the Tony Awards together.  The first time, when Neil...

Heeding Mel's  oft repeated bit to make backups I went back to my first IF blog. I reread the posts about possible pregnancies, fertili...

A long time ago--and by that I mean about a decade or so--when the blogosphere was young, someone coined the term Infertility Island.  Don...

My sister's sister-in-law, H,  was let go after 20 years at her job. To be totally honest, we have never been close, but she's  ma...

Mel had a great post about how when you are dealing with Infertility you are more empathetic to someone else who is going through it. And ...

Yesterday we celebrated our 2nd family day.  I wrote this article about it and I thought I would share it here.  It was the most impo...

For the seven years we waited for Lotus Mother's day was hell. For the five years we tried to become pregnant and failed Mother's d...

Lotus does not like taking naps. She fights them with all her strength--and often wins. But today. She's asleep. Cuddled next to her...

I've been contemplating joining a temple. I've been contemplating never joining a temple again. I've been contemplating becom...

It was two years ago today.  Because of a wonderful woman named Rumor Queen and her website  I knew that our wait was coming to an end....