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Healing SPAM
I started obsessively collecting these little healing pamphlets the last week of my stay in South Africa. (That’s one reason why these two are from Cape Town, though I have a few from Pretoria. I...
View ArticleMen Don’t Give Birth, After All
I just got off the phone with a snotty bookseller in Boston. I was trying to set up a reading for four of the Boston-area writers in my forthcoming anthology of literary birth stories, Labor Pains and...
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Fertile Source
Catalyst Book Press’s ezine on fertility, infertility, and adoption-related topics, The Fertile Source, is now up and running and we’re accepting submissions. Please go visit it, comment on it, send...
View ArticleMore Reviews–Labor Pains and Birth Stories
From Midwest Book Review: “Maternity is more than putting on a little weight and having a baby show up nine months later. “Labor Pains and Birth Stories” is a collection of anecdotes covering the...
View ArticleWhen Perfect Strangers Violate You in Small but Significant Ways
Yesterday as I walked to my doctor’s appointment, some random dude leaned out of his car and screeched something at me that I couldn’t understand. But I definitely understood his final epithet:...
View ArticleWomanhood, Fertility, & Identity
In college, my best friend once described her hips as “child-bearing hips.” She knew back then that she wanted children and, indeed, now has six beautiful and healthy daughters. Me? I didn’t even know...
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Writing, Adoption, and the Mystery of Birth Mothers
Over on The Fertile Source, I’ve just published Terri Elders’s short essay, “Dreaming as the Summers Die,” about her childhood longing to know about her birth mother, a longing that has sustained her...
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Infertility, Heartbreak, and the Ironies of Conception
I’ve just published Kimberly Schaye’s essay on struggling to conceive, “Watching for Rhinos,” now live over at The Fertile Source. Here she talks a little more about infertility, heartbreak, and the...
View ArticleNew Baby in the House
For those of you wondering, “Where has Jessica been the past few weeks?,” well…I had a baby. He came five weeks early, but he was healthy. And so the past 3 1/2 weeks have been devoted to dirty diapers...
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Breasts, Sexual Objects, Flash Fiction, and Teen Pregnancy: an interview with...
Candice Baxter’s piece of flash fiction, “In Public,” has just been published on The Fertile Source. Here, I talk with her about that piece, writing, and her own personal journey. In “In Public,” your...
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