NFP Week: Meet Rhonda Ortiz, Captive Panda

Today we hear from designer & wordsmith Rhonda Ortiz about her experience as a member of the Captive Panda Club: Catholics who follow Church teaching on fertility but who nevertheless bust that super-fertile Catholic stereotype and get and stay pregnant as often as your average captive panda.

7QT: The Twenty Years Young Edition

Takes.  Seven of them.  This Ain’t The Lyceum.  You know the drill.   -1- Twenty years ago today I met my husband.  There were fireworks that night.  No, literally, I went with a friend to see fireworks with her friends.  As that friend calls it, Happy Meetaversary to us.  Every year I’m surprised that we met […]

Endometriosis Awareness: Meet Barb S.

Welcome, readers, new and old!  The subject of endometriosis is near and dear (as in, costly and painful) to my heart… not to mention most of my abdomen.  As March 3-9 is Worldwide Endometriosis Awareness Week, I’m doing my part to shed light on the cause by featuring some women who also have faced this diagnosis. Today, […]