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Why Do We Pretend Away Infertility?

Posted on March 25, 2013February 25, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Humans don’t do well with emotional discomfort of any kind. This has been proven time and time again, but no more so than with infertility. It can be traumatizing on many levels, but I guess I didn’t realize how difficult an infertility diagnosis can be on other people. They just do not want to see…

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Enough With the Mom Pandering, Ann Romney

Posted on August 29, 2012February 24, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

M E M O R A N D U M TO: Ann Romney RE: Enough Already With the Mom Pandering! Like many others I am a registered voter and a citizen who wants greatness not only to flourish in the United States of America, but in countries all over the world. I am also a political junkie who makes a point of listening…

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Zen and the Art of Living After Infertility

Posted on December 16, 2010February 12, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

The title of this blog post came to me as I poured my second cup of coffee. While I’ve yet to read Robert Maynard Pirsig‘s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I recall laughing the first time I heard the title. In researching his ideas further this morning, the book is now officially on…

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An Artist Shares Decades of Wisdom

Posted on May 30, 2010September 22, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Editor’s Note: In the early weeks and months after stopping infertility treatments I craved access to happy and fulfilled women who had managed to survive the infertility experience.  I needed to hear from someone who could tell me that everything would be okay, someone with the wisdom and experience to know what I had lived…

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