One of the early books on childlessness, it is still the only one I know of that focuses on being childless because your partner can’t or won’t give you children. Well, except for my other book,Love or Children: When You Can’t Have Both. That one is a best-of-the-blog compilat...
Selfish, oh yes, but in mitigation, benefit for the dogs – win win. There are so MANY dogs needing temporary refuge in a home environment that one can choose where to help. Owners die unexpectedly, and the bereaved dog spirals into depression in a pound while a new home is sought. ...
So for a brief time we had 3 cats, but our other cat, 14 year old Daisy, had been going into a slow decline. We brought her into the vet’s earlier this month, where the vet prescribed antibiotics. But the antibiotics didn’t work, and last week I found her on the kitchen floor...
Each birthday for you is so, so happy for me and daddy, but also a bit sad. You are our little peanut butter. You made us parents, and as you get older there is less and less of baby Maeve and more and more of grown-up Maeve. Sometimes we’d just like to slow things down a ...
Before the advances of modern medicine with its vaccines and antibiotics, many babies didn’t survive to adulthood, so it made sense to have more. I don’t know if any of my ancestors’ children died young. Everyone who knew them is gone now. But it seems likely. ...
My daughter, Ruby, has had a rough time lately trying to fight off an upper-respiratory infection even with multiple rounds of antibiotics that just don’t seem to be working on her little four month-old body. Today among the typical “Good Morning” greetings a friend asked, “How’s Mi...