It’s hard to scroll through any of the major social media platforms without watching an ode to one or another aesthetic. The concept of ‘an aesthetic’ in pop culture, crystalized in recent years, is that the summation of certain qualities and characteristics create a cohesive and attractive whole. For instance, dark academia aesthetic may consist…
Infertility Part 3
Infertility Part 3: Thank you all for hanging in there for these three installments. I personally feel that I have learned so much from putting these pieces together. In this last, and shorter, installment, we are looking at the role community can play in supporting those struggling with infertility. Our temptation is to follow the…
Thirty, Curious, and Settled
There is a lot of hard work done in your twenties. Many begin making real life decisions and the shock of “adulting” hits harder than anticipated. I have noticed a tendency, in the face of an overwhelming amount of life decisions and choices to make, to freeze up, become anxious, and stall out. It’s not…
Infertility Part II
I remember being at a wedding years ago and hearing a truly beautiful Maid of Honor speech. Now, I was young and inexperienced at how horrible these can be. As the years have passed, and I have sat and listened to some painful, cringy, and head-smacking speeches, my appreciation for this speech has grown. There…
The Importance of a Good Introduction
We’ve all been victim to a bad introduction. Those precious and irrevocable moments that belong to a first impression hold the power to create something new, but on the other end of the spectrum, to also fall flatter then a long forgotten polar seltzer which, upon the first taste, is deemed not just flat, but…
Infertility Part I
There is a Dr. Seuss book I have read to my son which has caught my attention. Somewhere in my cerebral space, Seuss’s musical rhyme resurfaces whenever I find myself living out the truth he so playfully and artfully depicts. In the scene, a conglomerate of unrelated people are all shown, in a variety of…