infertility
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Hope Gives a Eulogy Is Turning into Music – coming soon!
My sister, Cheyenne Olson, owns a piano studio in Utah and is finishing up her first volume of Piano Poetry where she gives musical voice to 15 of my poems from Hope Gives a Eulogy. Part of Cheyenne’s piano project meant I got to write about and share some more of my heart and what… Continue reading
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Don’t Take Me Back – the painful side of social media’s 2016 trend
2016 is trending;but it’s the year that markedthe years to comeof lifewithout a babythe year I didnt knowthat I would startto die. 2016 is trending;it’d be a long and painfulburialmonth by monthby month bymonth—this is what it’s liketo diewhen you arestill alive. (But are you?) I can’t get backthere.Nor do I want to—do not take meback.… Continue reading
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A Bedtime Story of Faith and Motherhood
Not long ago I walked by the bathroom mirror and did a double take. Seven months pregnant and it shows. In November I will give birth for the third time. Yet for about half of my twenties I grieved the reality of infertility and the possibility I would never have children from my womb. There… Continue reading
