BRENT STOLLER

A hopeful, (sometimes) humorous take on the traumas of infertility and pregnancy loss.

You Can’t Achieve What You Don’t Attempt

It’s better to have tried and failed than to have failed to try.

I believe in this truism in theory.

I’m just having trouble applying it to my reality, at least for the moment.

This is the Lesson to Never Forget About 9/11

“Never Forget.”

This now-famous phrase rose from the ashes of Sept. 11, 2001, to ensure the significance of that day is never lost to history. 

We all have our own ways of remembering.

Here’s mine…

Healing a Broken Heart — While Hanging Out With the Person Who Broke It

In the year-plus I’ve been writing this advice column, I’ve written multiple articles about how to get over heartbreak.

And each time, I’ve included the same piece of advice:

Sever ties with the person who broke your heart.

But I’m not going to do that here.

When Success is Scarier Than Failure

How do you handle success?

Do you celebrate it? Or do you fear and/or doubt it?

For me, it’s more of the latter than the former. Which is probably why I don’t have more of it to celebrate.

Progress is Fleeting, But Process is Permanent

I am a renter.

I’m renting every bit of progress I’ve made — physically, emotionally, creatively.

And it takes far less than a missed monthly payment to have it repossessed.