At 45 I Got Pregnant for the First Time but My Doctor Told Me I Needed to Question My Marriage

went straight to the seagulls, because it matters. When the big things stop making sense, the mind grabs at small ones. Seven seagulls in a terrible piece of beach art from a dentist’s waiting room. That was what my brain offered me during the six minutes that changed the shape of my entire life.

The baby was fine. I want to say that first because the continue reading …