As this year comes to a close
As this year comes to a close, I’ve been spending time reflecting on work, loss, resilience, and how perspective is shaped by circumstance.
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Letter To My Sisters
To all my sisters and all the darling sisters of sisters who feel the same way about their sisters. Dear Sister,I love you so much.I wish I could give you everything you deserve.I wish I could take away all the turmoil, that your body and soul searches to get rid of.I wish you could’ve had […]
Read MoreReshuffle, reshuffle, and reshuffle some more.
I know what I want and I know what I deserve. It takes a long time to get here and as a Child of an Alcoholic, many of us say we will not be like them. But, I was one that held onto that for a long time. I probably went overboard, doing the extreme […]
Read MoreLetter to my Rapist
It wasn’t until recently that I came to realize how my rape truly affected me. At the age of 16, I lost my virginity to being raped. I never before realized how for decades, this act plagued me, and my encounters and involvements with men. I minimized the violation, to being passed out for most […]
Read MoreMemories through a Photograph – Innocence Lost
Every once in a while I come across this picture. I have a few pictures from this night in 1986. I always had a camera handy to capture anything and everything. I’ve probably captured too many memories that most would like to forget. But, the more times that I have come across this image, I […]
Read MoreLoving My Long Hair
I love my long hair. I used to really love having short hair, also. When I was a child I remember my mom having my dad take me and one of my sisters to the barbershop to get our hair cut. We had long hair and my mom had a hard time brushing through it […]
Read MoreOvercoming the Fear of Speaking Up
I’ve lived in fear of speaking up most of my life. I’ve only challenged it sometimes. Covid and quarantining makes you really have time to think. It gives you the time to work on things about yourself that you may want to change or the things about your life that you may want to overcome. […]
Read MoreAdios 2020. Hello 2021!
2020 is over and I was reflecting on this tough year through my pictures.A little year ago, at the end of 2019, I was so looking forward to 2020, which was going to end with a trip to my homeland, Peru. Things were going so well and the upcoming year looked so eventful and promising. […]
Read MoreDon’t call me Sexy!
Do I either have no reaction or pretend not to acknowledge when you call me, sexy? Yes. Other times I just cringe when I’m called, sexy. Maybe it is because I don’t think of myself as sexy. Maybe I truly don’t like or understand the word, sexy, and why it is used. Maybe it is […]
Read MoreStopping Traffic Documentary
Last month I finally sat down and watched the rest of the documentary, Stopping Traffic. I had previously watched the first half a month earlier. I believe that I have had it in my Amazon Prime watch list for more than a year, so it really took some time to muster up the emotions or […]
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