Disclaimer: If you hate Taylor Swift or childless women this blog post isn’t for you. It’s National Infertility Awareness Week and people all over social media are sharing their stories. My own Facebook memories today popped up with the story that I told 4 years ago when I was nearing the end of my “journey” […]
A note: I started writing this blog on March 8th, the day after the State of the Union Address and the Republican Response by Katie Britt. Much has been said about both by people with much more education, experience, and knowledge on politics than I have. But I still want to post this. I’m still […]
This is a post I’ve thought about writing for a long time. Every time I’m at a concert or have a particularly engaging conversation, I think about community. There is quite possibly nothing I love more than looking around and feeling like the people around me just get it. I get giddy thinking about the […]
I have lunch duty this semester. This means that I stand in the cafeteria for 40 minutes, 5 days a week and attempt to prevent teenagers from fighting, fucking, vaping and vandalizing. There are anywhere between 3 and 6 members of the faculty and staff at any given point and we are all stationed about […]
Mercury is in retrograde. I don’t know what that means. I mean, I know what it literally means. It means that right now when you look at Mercury through a telescope it looks like it’s orbiting backwards. Or something like that. I don’t know what Mercury being in retrograde means for me and the universe, […]
Hello! I’m back. Well, we’ll see how consistently. But, right now I’m quarantining myself in my bedroom with COVID, so what better time than now to put my thoughts back out there? So, what do I write about after not writing in my little blog space for over a year? I think that maybe I […]
Let’s talk about the bad days. The kind of days when you feel like you’re living a stranger’s life and you see baby animals everywhere you look and it seems like everyone in the world who has a uterus is pregnant. And then there’s you. Coming to terms with my childless future does not mean […]
The last time I went to Barnes & Noble was the day my husband got his second vaccine. We stopped to peruse on our way home. We ended up walking out of there with just one book, Anthony Bourdain’s final memoir/travel book. There’s a lot in that paragraph. I’m going to break it down. The […]
One year. No that’s not that amount of time it’s taken me to write this next blog post, although I definitely have not made the commitment that I anticipated making when I started this. It’s been one year since I posted this on my Facebook page: It’s National Infertility Awareness Week. Here’s our story: Jared […]
Today I created categories for my blog. I didn’t like it. Labelling and planning. Yuck. As someone with anxiety, the organization and categories and neatly lined up ideas makes me feel very content. Also as someone with anxiety, the thought of creating a blog post that doesn’t fit nicely into a category makes me feel […]
Empty Oven 