When I was 25 years old, I spent an incredible year volunteering on a kibbutz in Israel. You can imagine that back then fertility was the furthest thing from my mind. Instead, I would wake up before dawn, drag myself out of bed and walk in the freezing cold across the kibbutz to the cafeteria, where the only people [...]

When my niece got her first period 10 years ago, I decided that this date was worthy of celebrating every year moving forward. So every single August 28th , I take her to lunch at an ethnic restaurant, figuring that this way, not only do we commemorate that life- changing day, but I share with her a love [...]

One of the hardest things for some women to admit is that they’ve never had an orgasm, and they often assume that they are the only ones. Actually, a woman’s ability to achieve an orgasm is much more complex than a man’s, and often requires just the right ambience, to say nothing of technique. One of the best [...]

A few weeks ago, after a grueling meeting working on TCOYF fertility app updates with my partners in Bellingham, Washington, I was looking forward to the relaxing train ride back to my home in Seattle. But a minute before it was supposed to arrive in the station, they announced that boulders had crashed onto the tracks between the two cities, [...]

There are few types of love more powerful than the love of one’s child, unless, of course, it's the love of one’s cat. Say, what? That’s right. There is a select group of people for whom the love of their cat is enough to make them do irrational things like, oh, not travel for 12 years lest their [...]

When I was four years old, my father was a professor at UCLA on sabbatical in France teaching at the University of Toulouse. So my family lived in a small village just outside of Toulouse for a year. It was magical. The only problem was that I was so afraid of losing my balance on the ceramic footholds on [...]

When I first decided to write my book back in the Stone Ages, the internet had yet to take over our lives. So at that time, the thing that kept me up nights was my concern that women could misunderstand concepts in the book, leading to either unplanned pregnancies, or not conceiving when desperately wanting to. Today, those fears [...]