I’m excited to share that my next round of the Personal Essay Workshop at San Francisco’s Writing Pad will begin on Tuesday 9/26/17. So much great writing has come out of these groups. I’m looking forward to the next.
Read more »“With twins, you’re highly visible–everyone sees your caravan and crew. At the same time, you’re also invisible, as so many people simply don’t get it. I know this is true because I didn’t get it either, until having twins myself.”
This is from my latest piece on Huffpo parents, about the incredible solidarity among moms of multiples…
Read more »The Doctor and The Stork: A Memoir of Modern Medical Babymaking is now available in bookstores and on Amazon.com. Here’s a bit about it: There are more than 150,000 twin births every year, and over five million IVF babies have been born since the technology’s inception. In this timely and compelling memoir, K.K. Goldberg offers […]
Read more »I have a new story on The Huffington Post, just up today. Though people say technologies like online dating or IVF or C-sections unnaturally control things, the opposite is true. They open you to whole new levels of randomness, hazard, surprise and wonder. With IVF especially it felt like I spent a year at Reproductive Burning Man: with masses of people, piles of drugs, and anticipation of a final, cathartic event.
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This is a letter to Jill Birnbaum, loved and missed by so many of us. Jill, I really still can’t believe you are gone. I think of you every day.
Read more »I used to google this question during stressful early months with our sons, when things got rough—where “rough” was defined as symphonic wailing, obstreperous non-eating, and/or virus-induced non-sleeping. You know, “normal,” for parents of multiples. A few years in, I have my own answer to this question.
Read more »C-sections are often hailed as unnecessary, agonizing and overused. On this topic, I can speak only for myself. That said, strange as it sounds, there were things I actually loved about my surgical birth. On The Huffington Post today.
Read more »Featured on The Huffington Post Parents, this was another shout out to lingering angst as a post-IVF parent and an adult child of divorce. Thanks, Mom, for taking this one in stride.
Read more »I had the great pleasure of joining fellow New York Times “Modern Love” essayists at San Francisco’s Books Inc. Dan Jones, the amazing editor of this column, summoned us to do “flash readings” as part of an event for his new book, Love Illuminated.
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