Music has always been home to me. When I am filled with joy and wonder, I express it through music. When life gets hard, as it so often does, I retreat into the waiting arms of songs and melodies and allow them to embrace and soothe me.
Read moreInconceivable Motherhood
I have been a photographer for about 15 years and my proposed project Inconceivable Motherhood is the most personal one I’ve done to date.
Read moreUs Childless Women
The Changing Seasons Of Grief
The Feminine Tree represents the changing seasons of our grief.
Read moreWithout You (Song of the Childless Mother)
The haunting outro of the song hits like a dagger to the heart. So many of us going through this journey struggle with the concept of emptiness, lack of legacy, and existential grief.
Read moreBlackbird
The inspiration behind Blackbird came from a deeply personal place—my experience of being childless, not by choice.
Read moreForget-Me-Nots: Painting as a way to cope with grief and add joy
I painted these forget-me-nots in dedication to the children we longed for, dreamed of, and lost.
Read moreStop It!!!...
Getting back in touch with my creative side
The meditative rhythm of stitching and therapeutic whack of mallet strikes – the noise and mess of crafting; and healing.
Read moreEmpty arms, open heart
I created this mixed media piece after accepting the reality that I will never have children.
Read moreThe Ache
Not a creative person
Your Song
I'm sitting at the piano and want to write you a song. But, just like so many times before, I have to cry while I try to find the words to describe what you mean to me.
Read moreI am
Writing and Meaning as a CNBC Woman
I am a sociologist and I have been researching and writing about childlessness and nonmotherhood (nonparenthood) for 35 years.
Read moreWithout Fruit
The project “without fruit” is an unusual way of processing deeply hidden feelings and emotions; about the heart's desire to become a mother that never came true.
Read moreYou Never Spoke But I Heard You
I want to share something extremely special with you today. Something that shows not just the strength of sharing our words but the power and impact our words have.
Read moreLegacy
I have been ‘knowingly’ living without the possibility of having children for 21 years now; and though I have come to accept it, the questions that go through my mind never really go away and I suppose I tend to keep myself busy as a way of coping.
Read moreYou Are Not Broken
Tooth
They find it in her water bowl
no tooth fairy in this quiet house
Just a flash of what might have been.
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