Here Be Hippogriffs Another introduction that I got from going along on Ayun's virtual book tour for MLDD. I am now reading about Julia's new pregnancy and waiting to find out the results as determined by the professional. She and her husband are truly trying to not be optimistic from what they saw on the scan, but as you know, you never know. They are in the midst of doing another IVF round. They also have a son named Patrick, who is a doll and great fun to read about his antics as a child.

Going through her archives, I got back all the way through January 2004! Can you imagine? Blogging so consistently and so well for... more

For those of you that know me in person, and those of you who have read some of my other stuff, know that there are days that I wish that I could be Ayun Halliday. Or, mostly, that we were buds and I could hang out with her. Or that I could drop my kids off with her to enjoy some altered reality in NY, instead of their real reality in WA.

Ayun is announcing the UK release of her book, The Big Rumpus (as it is known in the US), by doing a virtual book tour, visiting different blogs throughout the month of August. By following her tour, I was introduced to Tertia, the writer of So Close.

The... more

Finally, I found the blog that I have been looking for since I started blogging here. The blog about infertility from a male perspective. Now, I know that this doesn't say much about my internet searching skills, but let's focus on the end result here...the blog from a man who wants to be a daddy desperately. He also wants to be supportive of his wife as they go through this process and read about infertility from a male point of view. He writes that he started the blog to vent and to also write one since he couldn't find one from the wanting to be dad-to-be perspective either. He began his blog in December 2005, and has continued it through 2006.

One part of his blog that I read... more