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  1. Will 2012 Be the Year We Lose "Mom" as the Go-To Modifier?

    1/3/12 4:10pm by Pamela Jeanne
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    Good Riddance "Baby Bump"Not only did this phrase join a set of other annoying expressions and words banished at the end of 2011, its prominent position on the list made me wonder if 2012 might just be the year when "mom" gets knocked off the top of the go-to modifier list.It's been "soccer mom" this and "grizzly mom" or "tiger mom" that for too freaking long. Enough already! There's more to being a female in modern society than "momming"-- has it really become a verb, too?  Apparently.  Read more >

  2. Moving On to A Magical Life

    8/23/11 7:37am by Pamela Jeanne
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     If someone had told me 10 years ago that I would have a magical life after infertility, I probably would have decked them. Such was my anger and despair over the loss of a fragile but long-held dream and more than a decade of trying, fruitlessly, to conceive with the man I adore. I was bitter, broken and inconsolable.  Read more >

  3. What Betty Ford Taught Me

    7/9/11 10:11am by Pamela Jeanne
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    "It was like going to a party you're terrified of, and finding out to your amazement that you're having a good time." That's how Betty Ford, who passed away today at 93, described her life in the White House during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. I was only 10 years old when she became First Lady. I didn't fully appreciate, until I was older, how much she influenced my life. She didn't shy away from her struggles, she talked openly about them.  Read more >

  4. Neither Here Nor There After "The Thing"

    2/22/11 9:33am by Pamela Jeanne
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    Editor's Note: Please take a brief poll (you'll find out why at the end of this post).  Read more >

  5. Are You Courageous?

    1/28/11 9:31am by Pamela Jeanne
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    "Courage is from the Latin word, cor, meaning heart — the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart." *  Read more >

  6. Who is Your Michelango?

    1/11/11 10:06am by Pamela Jeanne
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    A recent story in the New York Times under the header "Sustainable Love" prompted me to think about how we develop and change as individuals, and gave me insights into how to further shape the mosaic that is now moi<  Read more >

  7. Aunt to the Rescue for "The Talk"

    9/12/10 4:49pm by Pamela Jeanne
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    Sex Education

    It didn't take keen skills of observation to see that my niece was exhibiting early signs of puberty. That I only see her one or two weeks out of the year only underscored the change in her appearance. Why the infrequent visits? She lives in Dublin, Ireland, and I live in the San Francisco Bay area.  Read more >

  8. How We Have Yet to Change

    8/19/10 10:16am by Pamela Jeanne
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    It may be 2010, but in one very big way we're still locked in the past. It took Gail Collin's book, When Everything Changed, to make me see how we have yet to change.  Read more >

  9. Invisibility -- Seen it Lately?

    7/14/10 8:06am by Pamela Jeanne
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    "The minute you retire, it's as if you're invisible." I had to do a double-take when I read that sentence in an article about how difficult it is to get Stanford profs to make space for younger faculty.  Read more >

  10. My Father, My Prom King

    6/16/10 9:41pm by Pamela Jeanne
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    Despite being a funny looking, gangly slip of a girl,  my dad made me believe I was the most beautiful, bright daughter a father could ever want. He encouraged me to reach high, and celebrated every victory no matter how small. He engaged in the usual dad activities -- teaching me to ride a two-wheel bike, running behind me for several hours hanging onto my banana seat until I found my balance, and helping me with my homework.  Read more >

Pamela Tsigdinos

Full Name
Pamela Tsigdinos
Member Since
February 2007
About Me: 

Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos (Sig-din-us) is an award-winning author, a blogger and an infertility survivor. In her first book, Silent Sorority, Pamela shares with naked candor, humor and poignancy the intense and, at times, absurd experience of adjusting to a life as a "non-mom." Pamela and her blog, Coming2Terms, and books have been profiled in the New York Times. and in The Globe and Mail. Her writing is featured in a variety of online outlets including BlogHer (of course!), Fertility Authority, Open Salon, MORE.com, Ottawa Citizen and SheWrites, just to name a few. Her book Silent Sorority is available for purchase on Amazon.com, or as an ebook at Smashwords. She has recently started a new blog for women who are not mothers after reaching the end of the road in fertility treatments: http://blog.silentsorority.com/

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