The diploma mattered, but who I had become as a result of my journey mattered to me so much more. I secretly fished the thick catalog addressed to my younger brother out of the recycling bin and spirited it up to my room. I didn’t want my family to know how badly I wanted something I believed I […]
Chronic illness and injury has taught me—is still teaching me—patience. These days are not a consolation prize for what I didn’t win, for where I didn’t or couldn’t succeed, for a better life I might have had if only…They are my life. “Where do you see yourself in five or 10 years?” Erik asked as we […]
Women’s reproductive lives and choices are often a public discussion, as if our most personal decisions are up for committee debate. When my friend Jen invited me to a closed Facebook group for women who don’t have children but do have pets, I thought it would be a fun distraction. At 39, my only child […]
