It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
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Game of Crones
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Game of Crones
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How a DNA Testing Kit Revealed a Family Secret Hidden for 54 Years
A personal essay by memoirist Dani Shapiro about discovering, accidentally through DNA testing, that the father she knew was not her biological parent. In the piece she advocates for the rights of children produced through assisted reproduction, after decades in which those of parents and donor prevailed, and children were kept in the dark about […]
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Dress You Up in My Love
A personal essay in which Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
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Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction, Story
Dress You Up in My Love
Doree Shafrir reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
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Making Peace with Selective Reduction
When risks arise in her partner’s pregnancy with triplets, Amber Leventry discovers that letting go of one life doesn’t have to mean losing faith, or love.
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The Doctor is a Woman
An excerpt from Sloane Crosley’s new essay collection, Look Alive Out There. Crosley reflects on the experience of freezing her eggs, despite her ambivalence about having children — and as a way of putting off the pressing matter of facing that ambivalence as a woman in her late 30s.
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From One Friendship, Lessons on Life, Death, AIDS and Childlessness
In this personal essay, S. Kirk Walsh reflects on her friendship with a gay man battling AIDS — how he taught her to grieve her own infertility, and live life more fully.