For many years my best friend Marie and I would say to each other, “It could always be worse.” I didn’t realize how true that could be until the summer of 2014. I also came to believe in luck and how beauty can emerge from devastation. Towards the end of 2010, anxious about my declining fertility, I tried to conceive (via sperm donor) but was unsuccessful. Six months later I was laid off from my well-paying but highly stressful corporate job. Luckily, the money I saved in hop