Category Archives: Essays

Cornual Pregnancy: Epilogue

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Cornual Pregnancy Advice for Future Pregnancies The doctor advised us that if we wanted to have another baby, we needed to undergo in vitro fertilization.  Once a woman experiences a cornual pregnancy, the chances are high that she will have a subsequent cornual pregnancy. In vitro avoids this complication because the embryo implants in the proper area of the uterus. This… Read more »

A Cornual Pregnancy: The Final Chapter

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Cornual Pregnancy:  The Final Chapter For Chapter One, click HERE. For Chapter Two, click HERE. Some Background Info In simple terms, a cornual pregnancy is NOT an ectopic pregnancy (outside of the uterus) but an interstitial pregnancy where the embryo implants in the upper corner of the uterus. Basically, the embryo implants in an area of the uterus where there… Read more »

Don’t Use Facebook To Invite Me To Your Wedding

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Facebook Wedding Invitations are a Bad Idea I Will Never Understand Facebook wedding invitations are a bad idea.  I don’t think I will ever come to understand why people use social media as a platform for sending invitations.  Maybe it’s because I have been a lifetime lover of greeting cards, stationery, and pretty paper.  Maybe it’s because I remember obsessing nearly thirty years… Read more »

Embrace Your Curls, Girls!

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Manage Curly Hair a guest post by Cindy Holt Smith Today’s post is brought to you by a friend of mine from high school, Cindy Holt Smith.  As someone who used to struggle with wavy hair, I totally related to one of her recent Facebook posts about her struggle to manage her curly hair.  With her permission, I’m reposting her… Read more »

What’s Right About America

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What’s Right About America When I was in high school, I participated in the Miss NJ National Teen Pageant.  Part of the pageant was a speech competition where we had to write and recite a 150-word speech on the topic “What’s Right About  America.”