Guess Who's a NotGrandMom? It's ME!
Ever since I began working on The NotMom in 2012, my interest in women without children by choice or by chance incuded the ones I dubbed NotGrandMoms --older women living within a different space of nonparenthood. At my conferences in 2015 and 2017, I added panels of these women because their sttories were very different from those of us younger than 50. The comment they each shared was that they were feeling the same things they'd felt in their 30's. Their girlfriends, now g
10 Years Later, It's a New World. Tell Us: How YOU Doin'?
The NotMom launched on Mother's Day 2012. Back then, the presence of non-parents online was VERY limited. One of the few sites I could...
Mother's Day 2020: A Holiday We'll Remember
In 2012, The NotMom launched on Mother's Day and as you might expect, it was a holiday and an event I knew I would never forget. As a...
Will "A Million Little Things" Give Us the Childfree Character We’ve Been Waiting For?
If you haven’t been watching A Million Little Things on ABC, you should start now. It’s okay, I’ll wait. Now that you’re caught up, we...
'Egg' Is A Women's Movie Because It Makes Us Think
Egg. It's such a cute little word. Poor thing is cursed to drag along universally heavy baggage of Meaning and Power. Egg is the perfect...
A Comedy About Infertility? Not Really.
Back in January 2018, I wrote a post announcing the production of Private Life, a Netflix movie that purported to take an honest look at...
Laura's Story: Childfree and Moving On
When I quit my corporate job in the spring of 2012, I was entering completely unknown territory. Sure, other people have quit their...
Remembering the Place Where No One Asks If You Have Kids
Here's what we did on our Summer Vacation. The NotMom team -- Laura LaVoie and I -- spent our summer absorbing Change in just about every...
An Open Letter to 'The Big Bang Theory': Penny and Leonard Are OK Without Kids
Dear Writers' Room: I am one of the zillions of women worldwide who fell in love with The Big Bang Theory during Season One, Episode...
The Childfree Experience Under the Microscope
Years ago, I worked for a grant making foundation where I learned how research drives the world's progress. Funders pay for the research...
