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‘Non-moms’ Often Forced to Contemplate and Carve out Their Own Unique Space and Meaning

Posted on January 9, 2018January 10, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

    Non-moms recognized? Read on … That opening paragraph grabbed me. Did it grab, you, too? Truly, I didn’t expect this acknowledgement to make it into print, but it did. I stumbled upon this reference to ‘non-moms’ in a story because Silent Sorority garnered a mention in a feature about Dolly Parton.  (And that…

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Silent Sorority Gratitude and a Look Ahead to a New Generation

Posted on November 24, 2014November 23, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Thanksgiving gets all the attention and big league association with gratitude, but it’s the quiet, daily acknowledgement of thanks that actually serves us best. That’s one reason I want you to know that not a day goes that I don’t give thanks for the friendship, insights and kindness of all those who have taken the…

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Gather Round Women: So You Need Some Help With Your ‘Mommy Problem’

Posted on November 11, 2014January 2, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

With an impish look on his face my husband innocently asked if I’d read The New York Times opinion section recently. Minutes later — with the requisite cartoon steam coming out of my ears — I was harrumphing my way through Our ‘Mommy Problem.’  I could also be heard grumbling and exclaiming loudly: Finally figured…

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“The No-Baby Boom” Nails Cultural Shift and Gloria Steinem Rocks On at 80

Posted on March 24, 2014December 2, 2020 by Pamela Tsigdinos

It was easy to walk a little taller on Sunday. Why? I had just consumed, back to back, articles on women fearlessly tackling stereotypes and unabashedly breaking molds. It was as though a light was switched on as I read, illuminating just how dramatically society has shifted in the past 50 years — in particular…

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What’s This? Common Ground That Doesn’t Involve Motherhood Or Infertility

Posted on March 13, 2014December 20, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

I’ve been spending less and less time in the infertility blogosphere — and for all the right reasons. With my mind no longer preoccupied or dogged by tortured emotions associated with not being in the mommy club, the messiness of healing from infertility, or the rehab-like experience of reinvention and learning to live again, I…

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Generation I.V.F. Shares Lessons Learned

Posted on November 7, 2013August 5, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

We don’t get to choose when we’re born or the era in which we live, but we can decide what  lessons we leave behind for others. Author and fellow former fertility treatment patient Miriam Zoll lays out some truths associated with what it means to be a part of Generation I.V.F. in a piece  posted…

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How About a Time Cover Story on Women Who Aren’t Moms or Childfree?

Posted on August 5, 2013February 17, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

In the past year Time magazine has run two cover stories (Are You Mom Enough? and The ChildFree Life: When Having it All Means Not Having Children) and managed to miss — both times — a notable segment of the female population: women who don’t identify either as “moms” or “childfree.” If you dropped in…

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Outside The Bubble

Posted on May 23, 2013April 23, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

The world looks vastly different outside the bubble. Gone were the subliminal and overt messages about what a socially acceptable life is supposed to look like. Truthfully, once you you leave it behind, it can be a bit shocking to realize just how pervasive our social conditioning is. I was able to escape the noisy…

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Keeping It Real

Posted on March 1, 2013April 12, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Oh to have the charm and confidence that Jennifer Lawrence exhibited this past week as she tripped and then recovered on her way to accepting the Oscar for Best Actress. I marveled at the grittiness she showed in Winter’s Bone. I admired her stoicism and determination as Katniss in The Hunger Games, and I became…

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Not All Mothers Are Sanctimommies, Hooray!

Posted on February 5, 2013February 11, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

As part of my blogoversary week of lessons learned… #2 The Blogosphere Can Foster Strange Bedfellows One of the toughest aspects of being part of a group routinely held up for scrutiny (e.g. women without children) is facing detractors who feel perfectly at ease casting aspersions or passing value judgements on our lives. I don’t…

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