by Kathy on August 7, 2013 · 12 comments
in Accountability, BlogHer, Conferences, Expectations, Friends, Inspiration, Life, Quotes, Reality, Summer Camp, Writing
“You can’t boil the ocean, if you try to, your life/blog becomes generic.” ~ Maria Ross That is my biggest takeaway from BlogHer`13. I heard it towards the beginning of Pathfinder Day, in the Keynote One to One with Maria Ross and Lesley Pinckney. Maria, a brand strategist, author, speaker and brain aneurysm survivor, has so […]
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This time last year I was doing a lot of the same things I did today, packing and preparing to attend BlogHer’s annual conference. However, in 2012 I was flying to NYC with my sister for the big event, my first BlogHer conference, and I was a speaker there. For my second go around I […]
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by Kathy on May 23, 2013 · 7 comments
in Anticipation, Anxiety, Coping, Diversions, Expectations, Faith, Family, Friends, Gratitude, Injections, MRI, Relaxation
I have been trying to write this post for a few days now, but it has just been one of those weeks… I happy to report that survived my MRI on Monday! Not that there was much doubt that I would, but as with so many things in life, the anticipation turned out to be worse […]
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As I have shared here over the past few months, mostly through my Winter and Spring Shed Series, I have dealt with some challenging physical problems. From weekly pelvic floor physical therapy (PT) sessions to try to address painful muscle spasms in my urethra and vagina (which I used to think were chronic urinary tract infections) to […]
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by Kathy on May 9, 2013 · 15 comments
in Adoption, ALI Community, Background, Blog Hops, Book Tours, Books, Communication, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Inspiration, Journey, Loss, Love, Parenting, Planning, Relationships, Sensativity
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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by Kathy on April 24, 2013 · 11 comments
in ALI Community, Coping, Decisions, Expectations, Family, Friends, Healing, Hope, ICSI, Infertility, Inspiration, IUI, IVF, Love, Memories, Odds, Parenting, Planning, RE, Relationships, Resolution, Secondary Infertility, Secondary Infertility Stories, Siblings, Sperm, TTC, Writing
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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