Assisted Conception

AMBITIOUS. COMPASSIONATE. INDEPENDENT I cannot remember a time in my life that I did not know I was donor-conceived. I was raised by the most amazing single mother and never […]

MOTHER. EXPLORER. THERAPIST Early in 1993, my dad passed away.  A few days later, while walking in the mall with my mother, she said, “There’s something I have to tell

AUTHOR. ADVOCATE. ENTREPRENEUR “Misattributed” was a term totally unfamiliar to me. Misaligned, misinformed, misappropriated, and other “mis” words I comprehended. Only when I faced my own identity crisis did I

MOTHER. ADVOCATE. WRITER. As a mom and someone who dealt with infertility, I truly understand the desire for and joy of having children, and I try to balance that understanding

MONTANAN. ASTROLOGER. WRITER. I got the shock right before I turned 65 last summer. It started with a dream, an ordinary wafting story suddenly sharpened focus and someone handed me

TRUTH-SEEKER. TENACIOUS. EMPATHIC. My dad, Pat, was sick with cancer my entire life. He went in and out of remission so many times it became like “the boy who cried

CREATIVE. INTROSPECTIVE. INQUISITIVE. I was born in London, Ontario Canada in September 1986 with the help of an anonymous sperm donor. My mother’s husband at the time was infertile so

BETTER. EMPATHETIC. DECENT. In 2013 my 79-year-old father had been in and out of the hospital repeatedly and then had to be placed into a facility that specializes in Alzheimer’s