I’ve had conversations with new mothers who speak about those last few days before they give birth and how their excitement is mixed with trepidation, knowing that their lives will never be the same again.

I can’t wholly relate – I am childless, and my ovaries are disintegrating as we speak. Who knew that when you don’t need a reproductive organ anymore, the body dismisses it? My own body has officially canceled my ovaries.

Nevertheless, I am, dare I say, in a similar emotional space as these mothers, for I am about to give birth to my memoir, “Two Tickets to Paradise, from Cult to Comedy.”

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