Having dinner with my son one night, I asked him to explain his graduate research to me, and he began with the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. My son has always loved science because of its logical, concrete answers. I thought about my wife and I deciding to to try and have a baby in the early 1990s. I'm so glad we took that leap!

Pam Crow is an award-winning poet who lives in Portland, Oregon. Pam’s work has been published in Green Mountain Review, Carolina Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and other national journals. She is the winner of the Astraea Emerging Lesbian Writers award and the Neil Shepard award for poetry. Her book Inside This House was published by Main Street Rag press in 2008.