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Month: February 2019

Childless-By-Forced-Choice

22/02/201922/02/2019 Steph Penny Leave a comment Surviving Chronic Illness, Survivng Childlessness

I was married for two years when I was diagnosed with lupus. I was thirty-one at the time. The lupus diagnosis came after eight years of mysterious symptoms and misdiagnoses. (In that respect, the diagnosis was a blessing.) It was not a shock. It finally gave me clarity on all the bizarre, seemingly coincidental medical […]

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Surviving Valentine’s Day

15/02/201915/02/2019 Steph Penny Leave a comment Counter-culturalism, Surviving Singledom

Red roses. Fluffy teddies. Umpteen love hearts on social media feed. Yep, it must be Valentine’s Day. I had a lot of trouble tolerating Valentine’s Day when I was single. And it was not just the pointless commercialism. It was the unsubtle message that you have to be admired by someone to be a worthwhile […]

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Thank You

08/02/201908/02/2019 Steph Penny Leave a comment General writing

I am not accustomed to being thanked. As a writer, I typically sit on my lounge or in my writing ball chair, iPad perched on my knees, tapping madly away, happily oblivious to the outside world. I can sit like that for hours. I might take a break at some point, eat some food, pat […]

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Pass It On

01/02/201901/02/2019 Steph Penny Leave a comment Survivng Childlessness

I had a challenging time with childlessness at work this week. Normally I am fine with childlessness at work; I talk to parents all the time, no biggie. This week, we had a training day on learning to run a new group for parents. No problemo. I did not even think twice about it. On […]

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