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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
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9/11 Bowing Project Journal Entry August 11, 2013

August 11 was a Sunday this year.  I began bowing at my usual spot across the street from Bread Alone bakery.  But minutes after unrollingmy banner I felt I was hiding, being too safe standing there in the shade, apart from the Sunday morning breakfast traffic. So I picked up the easel with the sign and took a […]

Wednesday, July 10, 2013
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Baby Steps by Elisabeth Rohm: A Book Review by Julia Indichova

If I had not spent the last 19 years of my life in intimate dialogues with hundreds of the wounded veterans of the infertility techno-wars, I too might join the accolades for Baby Steps led by Dr. Sahakian, Rhom’s fertility doctor and the director of Pacific Fertility Center in LA, who writes: “What Elisabeth is doing by writing her memoir…and the fact that she had to do IVF to conceive is an immense favor to all reproductive-age women, and to the field of reproductive medicine.”

Wednesday, June 19, 2013
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Biological Clock or Time Bomb: Fear & Self-Loathing Do Not a Fertile Female Make

Exploiting Fears of Childlessness Might Be Slick Marketing, but Will It Make Us More Fertile? Fear and self-loathing won’t make us more fertile. But turning the biological clock into a time bomb by exploiting fears of childlessness makes for an effective marketing tool. The more panicked we are the more money we’ll spend for expert help. […]

Thursday, June 13, 2013
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Hey Dad: A Card from the Not Yet Born Child

  Happy Father’s Day to all FertileHearted Dads! I’m thinking of Jon, Annabelle’s Dad who  became a father the second time around just this week. Welcome Otis!  (If you need inspiration, you can read that family’s stunning story) And as I began thinking of all the dads celebrating for the first time after a long, long wait: Tom, Jason, and Josh and– so many […]

Monday, May 13, 2013
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Lesson In-Fertility: Life as the One Teacher Who Is Not Afraid to Be Unpopular

The most unpopular teacher during my high school days was an elderly woman, we’ll call her Mrs. Green. Mrs Green taught literature and every couple of weeks she assigned a paper about a poem or short story or about one of her favorite writers. The thing about these essays was that after we handed them […]

Tuesday, May 7, 2013
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How does Orphan Annie become a Mommy? A Mother’s Day Gift for All

A Mother’s Day Gift for All Flowingly Fertile Red Satin Mamas! You know we really did conceive our inconceivable baby on red sheets. True,  they were red flannel sheets.  Not sure why I didn’t go for satin. But it worked! As every year, the emails with subject lines, ”Coping with Mother’s Day,”  Infertility and Mother’s Day: Tips […]