Jan 2, 2023My mother looked down at her hands and said…"I’m pregnant."I would say my life has been defined in a large part by the lack of agency my mother had in her choice to have children. She was married...
Sep 23, 2022The Sonogram Tech Gave Me No SignsThree. For some reason three was the magic number in my head. Number one was so hard to conceive, to carry, to birth, to nurture. Number...
Jul 11, 2022I was not ready to make this commitment, and neither was he.When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...
Jul 11, 2022It was a time when abortion was legal and accessibleAs a college student in the early 1980's, I married young and briefly, and had two abortions. I trusted a man who turned out not to be ...