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Every Friday on my blog for the past three years, I have written what I call the Friday Blog Roundup. The idea came from the fact that the blogosphere is so large and diverse that it was easy to miss a good post and there was so much I read that I wanted to discuss. So each Friday, I would post four or so of the posts I read that week that still stayed in my mind long after I had clicked off the blog.
Of course, there are always many more than four posts that I find, though I know if I made the list too long, it would become unwieldy and people wouldn't click over to read each one. And yet what to do in a week where there were way too many to use and yet it was beyond wasteful to simply let them float into the ether of the blogosphere.
Use them here.
I'd love to direct you to some new adoption/infertility/loss (ALI) blogs that you may not have known about as well as highlight some posts from well-read blogs that you may have missed. Therefore, from time to time, I'll use these posts as a spillover space to display some of the best the ALI blogosphere has to offer.
Baby, Interrupted has a post exploring the concept of good-sad (which is probably most accessible from the term ugly-sexy). Which is the jumping off point for the author explaining how the sadness she feels over her friend's loss is a good thing because her fear has always been about how infertility has changed her emotional landscape. And to access that truest part of herself, the one that cries over another person's pain, is a good kind of sad.
Mrs. Spit Spouts Off has a gorgeous and heartbreaking post on both what she knows and what she doesn't know after the loss of her son, Gabriel. It begins with this fact: "I know I can survive the death of my son. I do not know how I will cope if we can never have another child." And it only unfolds from there, into the peaks and valleys of life after loss.
I Won't Fear Love has a post about her son's first birthday. It is a beautiful post capturing the mix of emotions accompanying a first birthday--from the common to the ones unique to someone parenting after loss. She ends the post by remembering the child of a friend who died, explaining, "It's something that we in DBL learn early, and notice often-- a good day for one is sure to be a disaster for someone else."
Life Induces Thoughts, Mostly Random has a post about grief. About playing the "what if" game and how it manifests itself in her behaviour. It is about her inability to leave the house, not because she believes that her presence is keeping bad things at bay, but because of her fear of discovering something has happened while she's away. With life changing and a return to school, she faces her fears head-on in this post and ends with the memory of her mother.
See? All amazing posts. What fantastic things have you read lately?
Melissa is the author of the infertility and pregnancy loss blog, Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters. She keeps a categorized blogroll of 1900 infertility blogs and writes the daily Lost and Found and Connections Abound, a news source for the infertility blogosphere. Her infertility book, Navigating the Land of If, is currently on bookshelves (May, 2009). She is the keeper of the IComLeavWe (International Comment Leaving Week) list which is currently open for August.
