oh and by the way.

i thought it was time to change up the appearance of the blog. this one feels a little more spacious and user-friendly.
hooray

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back from the border.

and so we just returned from celebrating our 4th anniversary at a faraway place called chinati springs, a natural hot spring chock fulla lithium and other good stuff. it was quite an adventure, and we camped. i am still utterly exhausted from the heat and the driving and the camping and the soaking in healing [...]

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fertility piñata

¡esta aqui!

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coi

hahahahahaha

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sisterhood of happy pills?

i have a question, aka i’m grasping for straws.
i’m sure that i’m not the only one who decided to ditch antidepressants and mood stabilizers for the sake of getting pregnant? does anyone have a story of how you coped? advice from doctors or midwives?
i’m doing alright. sort of. well. most of the time. but [...]

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i have no camera to photograph my lunch today.

…perhaps i will be late in posting and snap my lunch this weekend…
and because i love to post photos on the friday of the photos, i will make my own theme: us.
today is one of our anniversaries. there are three: 5/25/03, 7/18/03, and 12/18/04.
four years ago today, i was a newly-out lesbian in nashville, housesitting [...]

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ow.

this is my first period in a very long time without the aid of antidepressants. pms was a bitch. tears tears tears, a wee bit of panic, and more tears.
now that i’m bleeding, i feel alternately relieved (i.e open floodgates) and angsty. the cramps are the vomit-inducing kind, and i’m really hoping this is the [...]

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water.

for those of you who don’t know texas, may i present its greatest wonder: hippie hollow.
hh is the only nude beach in texas. h and i went there just the other day, where we swam and basked on rocks like seals. we drank cheap beer out of a cooler, and life could not be more [...]

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purge.

my father died when i was 18. heart attack. my first semester at college.
a decade ago september 26.
he was 69.
he left behind a gorgeous 1956 gibson guitar. pristine.
most of my life it had lived under his bed. i was not allowed to touch it because i did not know how to play. that’s how [...]

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sisters.

my sister just replied to my email. she’s sort of a lapsed catholic, jaded by religion type, so i was surprised by the God talk. it’s such a relief to hear congratulations instead of wariness or fear.
Congratulations on your big news! I’m happy to hear that you are surrounded
by so many medical professionals. [...]

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