Over the last several years, I've come across a lot of negative opinions about (federal) student loan forgiveness. Not just the 'Oh well, you signed the loan paperwork so you are legally obligated to pay it back' sort of pushback.....although that makes up a good portion of it. There are also those that say that student loan forgiveness is a scam....or that you'll be bankrupted by the tax bill....etc., etc. And just a lot of misinformation in ... Read the Post...
My Transabdominal Cerclage: The Key to Motherhood
In my previous post, I wrote about having an incompetent cervix and how devastating that diagnosis is. You feel like a very broken woman when you discover that your body just can't carry a baby -- something that millions of women do all of the time, multiple times, without any problems. You see pregnant women who run and workout and do all of this physical activity with no problem. In the meantime, when I was pregnant, I was afraid to stand up ... Read the Post...
The Cruelness of an Incompetent Cervix
I was a bit older when I finally made the decision to have children. At age 32 I was done with graduate school and in a long-term relationship and the time 'seemed right'. I had spent a good chunk of my life before then avoiding pregnancy. Growing up as the child of a teenage mother, my Grandparents made it seem that if a man sneezed on you, you could get pregnant. So like most young women -- I thought that I could just make motherhood happen ... Read the Post...
Site Reboot
So - my old blog is gone. Well, it isn't completely gone. I downloaded it into a pdf (about 300 pages); but I removed it from the internet (although I'm sure a cached copy will be out there for quite some time. So why did I do this? Well....for a couple of reasons: My site was injected with malware. In spite of paying last year to get malware cleaned from my site and changing webhosts, I still had some issues with malware coming up on ... Read the Post...
