By Leah Campbell Originally published on Babble Becoming a mother didn’t happen in the usual way for me. There was a lot of heartache in getting here, fueled first by years of infertility and failed IVF cycles, and then by a sense of not knowing whether I would ever get to be a mother at all […]
By RoiAnn Phillips There are shelves and shelves of books on birth, death, illness, marriage, loss and the stages of grief, describing what you might expect, how to cope, and how to support friends and family. What I have not yet discovered – and mind you, I’m a newly divorced mom, so I haven’t been […]
Eleven months without seeing your best friend is a long time — especially when you’re young orphans and separated by adoption. Yet, for two newly adopted Chinese orphans, they don’t have to worry about being absent from each others’ lives any longer. A video is circling the internet of two adopted Chinese orphans, Hannah and […]
Friendship. We appreciate the friends that we have and have always known, but as we grow older and have the chance to make new friends, we realize that it’s sometimes nice to make friends with people that are similar to you. This is especially true as parents. As an LGBT parent, it’s sometimes nice to […]
By John Jericiau Human waste. Bodily secretions. Discharges. Emissions. Call them what you will, but these are the bane of my existence. My entire life has been spent avoiding these at all costs. First, as a grade school boy, I utterly detested the loogies that my friends would hurl across the playground during recess. Disgusting! […]
I’m thankful for Alen, who over the last ten years has been referred to first as my boyfriend, then lover, partner, domestic partner, better half, and now, thanks to the judicial system, my spouse. Soul mate, man, mate, and partner-in-crime also come to mind, although we have never broken any laws together (well maybe if […]
By John Jericiau As happy an occasion as it is, the first birthday of your last baby is also filled with lots of sorrow and nostalgia. Of course I’m glad that we’ve made it through the first 365 days relatively unscathed, although his forehead has had more than his fair share of bruises now that […]
By John Jericiau My spouse and I are coming up on ten awesome years together. We marked the calendar from our first date together: June 11th, 2004. Most of our hetero friends start the clock as of the date of their wedding, but since we weren’t afforded that opportunity until June 21st, 2008 (during a […]
One of the perks of being the parent of young kids is making new friends. It all comes at such a good time too. Once you start having kids, in a natural and gradual way the friends you had in your single, childless years start fading away. I’m not bitter about it, although there are […]
By John Jericiau I met her over 20 years ago when I took a job as a staff physical therapist in a Los Angeles hospital. It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than two decades. We have been through so much together. Work has had its challenges. At about the tenth anniversary of our […]
