If you were old enough to pay attention to the news in the late 1990s, you'll know who  Monica Lewinsky  is. She's the young White H...

Right after I told my mother over the phone, that day in March 1998, that I was pregnant,  she started shopping. It wasn't long afterwar...

Day Four of   World Childless Week 2025  is all about " Childless Health Care? " F rom   the website description:  Have you sat in...

As it often has in recent years, today kind of snuck up on me. (Maybe that's for the best?)  Some years are better or worse than others,...

After reading  this article about a mother's grief   over the loss of not just one but BOTH of her (teenaged/young adult) sons (!), I im...

Have you ever noticed that crappy stuff seems to happen all together, in quick succession?  1998-99 was like that: I lost my baby, returned ...

I never collected a lot of things for Katie during my pregnancy with her (as I think I've mentioned here before). Things were tentative ...

I've sometimes written here (and elsewhere) about the unique place those of us who are childless after pregnancy loss occupy in the adop...

26 years ago today (!), our daughter (Kathleen Maria/Katie) was stillborn, 26 weeks into my pregnancy. (Monday was 26 years since I went for...

We arrived at my parents' house on Saturday to spend the Christmas holidays with them.  Yesterday afternoon, Parents' Neighbours...

Right now...*  * ( an occasional (mostly monthly) meme , alternating from time to time with " The Current "). (Explanation of how ...