Who Will See My Tears?

As most of you know I recently “crossed The Bridge” (a term for those of us who have attended The Bridge Retreat). One of the sessions on The Bridge was called ‘World Grief’ where we were encouraged to write, draw – essentially do...

Crossing The Bridge

I recently attended The Bridge Retreat hosted by Donna Lancaster and Gabi Krueger. At some point earlier in the year, and after hearing others talk about retreats, I had the urge to attend one myself. Apart from anything else this year has been a revealing one, one...

It’s official I am ‘Still Hot’!

This morning I woke up to the following tweet on Twitter… A few months ago I received an email from journalist Vicky Allan; Jessica Hepburn (Fertility Fest and author of 12 Miles) recommended that she contact me. In her email Vicky said that she “was blown...

World Childless Week 2020

As I think about World Childless Week starting tomorrow, Monday 14 September, it has dawned on me how far I have come since the start of my childless journey when I was told that I had unexplained infertility back in October 2014. The world of grief that I was then...

Leave the ‘Race Thing’ aside for now

I listened to one of Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table talks’ (Black America In Crisis) that motivated me to write this blog. I guess the conversation put words to some of the angry feelings that have surfaced recently, actually probably more like over that...