Thoughts on Getting Older

Denise Schipani / 17 Comments / Uncategorized / "This is 38", A Design So Vast, Caren Chesler, HBO, Huffington Post, Lindsay Mead, Older-Mother Math, Six Feet Under, The Dancing Egg, This is Childhood /

Yesterday, I read an essay by a 38-year-old mom, called “This is 38.” This is midlife, she said. Alarm bells went off. I thought about it on and off all day, and by the time I was getting ready for bed, I had half this post written in my head. Because something irks me when […]

June 12, 2013

Can You Hear Me Now? A Guest Post by Caren Chesler of “The Dancing Egg”

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Today, Day 12 of the WordCount Blogathon, is a guest-post exchange day, so I’m swapping posts with writer and mom Caren Chesler, who blogs at The Dancing Egg, which is about having conceived her only son, Eddie, in her forties — through IVF and with a donor egg. Here, she writes about her struggle to […]