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S Vitrolica writer, oil painter, travel addict, foodie, and grumpy wife. She was born in Anchorage, Alaska and has spent her thirtysomething years in wanderlust, cultures, and diverse volunteer work in several countries across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean.

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Parenting & Pregnancy > Fertility & Infertility Issues What not to say to a woman dealing with infertility: 4 of 19

1. Take a vacation. If I was going to get pregnant from taking a vacation, I think I'd have quite a large family by now. I live in France, we have FIVE WEEKS of vacation a year. And let me tell you, we have had some quite pleasurable attempts at baby-making on many, many of said vacations. 2. Relax, just stop thinking about ...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: A night out: 5 of 22

I would like to continue writing to you in the form of a letter, or with a voice, soft and meaningful, playing words that echo their closeness and understanding, but I am not sure if you can hear. Mother told me it was a sin to speak to the dead, that their world was separated from ours for reasons we should not ask to under...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Loss of innocence: 4 of 16

You had eyes as clear and cold as ice. We laid on the trunk of my car, in the humid Austin night, the open sky teasing us, coaxing us to believe that we were different. You stroked my hair, told me again that you loved me. I said I didn't know, hadn't planned on this, even as your warmth folded into my solitude, convincing m...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Infertility: 7 of 23

Googling in order try to decipher lab results is one thing. Hearing the dirty from a real doc is another. He's passing the baton. My locally renowned geeky German gynecologist can do nothing more for us. The man I chose to bring my future kidlets in this world acknowledged with authority yesterday that our test results are r...
Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: Self reflection: 9 of 27

I never got why they insisted on calling me Violet. If I had been there, or rather had I been able to speak, give me opinion as it were I would have told then that my hair is red, strawberry red actually, and that such an evidently illogical choice could only be an omen, and would surely lead to a series of illogical choices...
Food & Drink > Meat How to make a five-ingredient chicken dish: 16 of 47

Roast chicken stuffed with potatoes may seem quite ordinary, but it is a classic French dish as well. And (once again) it is so simple to make. This was one of the first local recipes I learned after moving to France, and it has always been a good, standby crowd pleaser! A few nights ago I made it for guests who came to dinn...
Food & Drink > Spices, Herbs & Condiments Great low-fat dressings: 4 of 7

One of the first things I noticed in the grocery store here in France was the very small selection of ready made salad dressings. After trying one or two, I was quite disappointed, until learning that most people don't eat these, or only do so in a bind. One of the simplest secrets to putting a little bit of Provence in your...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Worlds away: 20 of 23

This present world of mine (once so far, foreign, now so near, ordinary) I had naievely hoped and dreamed, before, when i was living in that other life that i would escape, from narrow minds and cutting words to a country free from such blatant stagnation twenty years become a bottomless ravine between then and now, another ...