After over 40 years living and breathing Fertility Awareness, I’m now in the throes of rewriting the book for the 30th anniversary edition of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, to be released in the fall of 2026. I know I've previously said 2025, but because the book's scope is so large, it is taking longer than expected! [...]

Hello everyone, I’m so excited to announce that come 2025,  we will be replacing the current OvaGraph app with an entirely new one with a new name, built from the ground up. We are designing a fresh and sleek app to fully integrate with the 30th anniversary edition of Taking Charge of Your Fertility, also [...]

  I’ll be honest. I’m a weenie. Oh sure, I may seem like I have my act together, but if truth be told, there’s a valid reason I chose to not have children. Don’t get me wrong. I love, love, love kids. I love their pudgy little legs when they are just infants, and their [...]

I have a friend who was so utterly overwhelmed with the 5-year process of researching and writing her book, that when it was finally published, she couldn’t wait to escape to another country where she wasn’t tethered to computers, fax machines, phones, and utterly stressful jaunts to the airport Fed-Ex office during rush hour to [...]

I just had my mammogram a few days ago, and I can honestly say that for the first time in over 25 years, it was, (wait for it) . . . almost pleasant! Now don’t get me wrong, I’d still rather scrub toilets than have my breasts squished between two hard cold plates, but [...]

When I was four years old, my father was a professor at UCLA on sabbatical, teaching at the University of Toulouse in southern France. So my family lived in a tiny village just outside of Toulouse for a year. Back in 1960, the locals had never met anyone from abroad, so they always referred to [...]

So, the exciting events of the Tokyo Olympics are behind us and can no longer provide the escape we all needed from the bewildering news we hear on a daily basis. And now that the story of the incredible gymnast Simone Biles’ withdrawal from most of the events is not the jaw-dropping news it was [...]

I’m often asked if the Fertility Awareness Method is a good form of birth control for all women, but my answer is usually a surprising “No” — which, as you can imagine, often throws some for a loop. Since I’m clearly a huge advocate of a scientifically validated, natural method of contraception, why wouldn’t I [...]

Over the many years since Taking Charge of Your Fertility was first released in 1995, I’ve had the joy of experiencing scores of amazingly serendipitous moments, but I think the one that will always touch me the most occurred just a couple years ago. But before I describe it, let me give a little context. [...]

My book, Taking Charge of Your Fertility, has been translated into nearly a dozen languages over the years, so a few days ago, I had the pleasure of Skyping with a charming Czech journalist about the upcoming release of the book in the Czech Republic (who knew?) While talking with her, I mentioned how one [...]