Decisions

The 8th Annual Creme de la Creme list opened for submissions yesterday. Two years ago, when I started looking through my posts to pick one to submit for the 2011 Creme, I struggled to decide which to choose as my favorite. I was very motivated and inspired to write that year, so I felt that I had […]

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When I wrote and shared my first Letter to the Editor of The New York Times last week, I was unaware that they will not publish letters which have already been published somewhere else, including on the web. I realize now that may have been a significant factor, a long with the length (550 words), in their […]

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I sent this Letter to the Editor of the New York Times today, after a loved one brought the Op/Ed “My Abortion, at 23 Weeks” by Judy Nicastro to my attention. TO THE EDITOR: Re “My Abortion, at 23 Weeks” (op/ed, June 21): Judy Nicastro makes a compelling and heartfelt case for why her husband and […]

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Let’s do the Time Warp again! Welcome to the 32nd installment of my blog hop/writing exercise called Time Warp Tuesday! For those not familiar with Time Warp Tuesdays, which I host on the 2nd Tuesday of every month, here is the background of how and why I came up with the idea. If you are […]

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Greetings and welcome to this stop on the The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption Book Tour! This is my fifth time participating in a book tour. My previous experiences were with Eat, Pray, Love, Life from Scratch, A Gift of Time and The Sound of Hope. For those of you not familiar with book tours, they are essentially online book clubs. […]

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For awhile I have thought it would be interesting and helpful, especially for those still in the trenches who want more children, to profile other families who have dealt with secondary infertility. Many of these people I got to know during our journey through secondary infertility (via community forums and/or blogs). Being able to share […]

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