Childless by Marriage

In a society where parenting is expected, some of us do not have children because our partners are unable or unwilling to make babies. That's what this blog and my book, Childless by Marriage, are about. The book is available now in paperback and as a Kindle e-book. Here on this blog, let's talk about what it's really like.

Monday, August 30, 2010

In some ways, we're all mothers

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I stop at a grocery store in Yreka, California to buy something for breakfast. At the cash register, the young man ahead of me gasps in reli...
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Monday, August 23, 2010

We have our own saint

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Did you know the Catholics have a patron saint for those who are childless? I stumbled upon it the other day. She's Saint Anne, mother o...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Book revisions done

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I finished revising my Childless by Marriage book tonight. Whew. I think of it as a "memoir plus". I tell my story but also includ...
Monday, August 16, 2010

Sometimes dogs are better than kids

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I took my dog Annie to my husband's nursing home yesterday. It was her first trip there, and I feared she'd be too wild and crazy. B...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Do your stepchildren accept you?

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Ah, stepchildren. I don't dare write what I want to write today for fear it will make my stepchildren dislike me more than they already ...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

When the dog-child runs away

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I sat under the tree in the backyard at midnight crying. My dog (the one in the picture, now full-grown) was gone. She ran out through a gat...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Georgia O'Keeffe: childless artist

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Georgia O'Keeffe never had children. A famous artist of the 20th century, she started painting in her teens and continued into her 90s. ...
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Sue Fagalde Lick
South Beach, Oregon, United States
I'm a full-time writer/musician and dog mom. Lifelong Californians, my husband Fred and I moved to the Oregon Coast in 1996. I spent many years working on newspapers before moving to full-time freelancing. My books include Shoes Full of Sand, Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California, The Iberian Americans, Azorean Dreams, Freelancing for Newspapers, and Childless by Marriage. Info at http://www.suelick.com/Products.html. My most recent book is Childless by Marriage. You can read an excerpt at http://www.suelick.com/Childless-by-Marriage-Excerpt.html or find out more about childlessness at my resource page, www.suelick.com/Childless.html. Email me at sufalick@gmail.com.
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