New Interview: Award-Winning Canadian Website: FemmeSansEnfant

Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle honored my book, The Female Assumption, with an interview on her award-winning website. Based near Montreal, most of her interviews are in French; this one is in English. She endeavors to, "Rally childless women by life circumstance or choice." There are many women who need understanding on this topic. When a women expects motherhood but doesn't find it, such as Catherine-Emmanuelle, it is hard when those close to her use words that assume...

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My Article for Our Bodies, Ourselves (aka Boston Women's Health Collective)

I was 15 years old when I received my first copy of the book, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS) -- a book written by women for women. My mom is "old school" and we never had "the talk," but

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Article: What Runneth over from Your Cup?

CMomA has a mission of connecting people with kids who are in need of mentoring, fostering, adoption, and they also do mission trips. My article highlights the idea that whatever is in your proverbial cup, rejoice in life and

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My book for sale: The Female Assumption

I'm happy to announce that my book, The Female Assumption, is now for sale at Amazon.com. I would like to take a moment to explain the choice of the subtitle, A Mother's Story: Freeing Women from the View that Motherhood is a Mandate. First of all, I'm a mom and I've lived much of what I write about. Many of the women I interviewed spoke of feeling boxed-in by the expectations of those around them. Some who

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