: About Me

I grew up on the East Coast and have spent time in New Jersey, Florida, and Virginia. I have raised chickens, worked in Manhattan, tutored 1st graders in reading, built dollhouses, been married and divorced, raised kids. In chronological order my interests have been: seal training, truck driving, singing, marine biology, law, fishing, poetry, horseback riding, fishing again, crossword puzzles, horseshoes, pool, fishing again, crochet, church, PTA, cross-stitch, volunteering, cats, horses, chickens, home schooling, cooking, gardening, dollhouses, board games, video games, guitar.

I am continually looking for new things to spark my interest.

My passion is ...

learning

I know too much about ...

nothing, but a little about everything

My parents always told me ...

no

My childhood ambition ...

seal training - horseback riding

My favorite memory ...

I have so many

Why I write ...

it is fun

My first job ...

laying lanolium and hanging wallpaper

My best moment ...

many

My inspiration ...

not inspired, just compelled

Parenting & Pregnancy > Fertility & Infertility Issues What not to say to a woman dealing with infertility

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When they first married, Kristin and Max immediately started trying for a baby. She wasn't very worried for the first few months, it would happen. As months stretched to nearly a year, she began worry. Ten years later, she has done everything the doctor told her to do, she took the injections, had egg retrieval , went to all her appointments, and took the prenatal vitamins. After another failed attempt she does her best to put it behind her and keep some semblance of a normal life under the strain. She sits down for tea with her sister-in-law, Denise, the mother of her 2 precious nephews. ...

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