I do want to give you a quick rundown of the things that beat my heart, so you have an expectation of what you might find here down the road:
- Music - local, indie, psych, blues, folk, rock, metal, classical, jazz, acid jazz, trip-hop, new age, music festivals, concerts, etc.
- Dance - I have two left feet, but it doesn't stop me from embarrassing myself with salsa and belly dance & hopefully some other styles that I feel compelled to try
- Writing - poetry, fantasy, sci-fi, creative non-fiction, thrillers, mainstream, allegory, metaphor
- Pets & Animals - we have two sweet elderly cats - a 14-year old black male and a 10-year old brown tabby, and two dogs - a 6-year old American Eskimo & a 6-year old Corgi/Border Collie mix and I love animals in general, but I'm very partial to baby harp seals (or any seal or sea lion), my spirit animal
- Technology - drones, databases
- Art - recycled arts, mail art, collage, pen & ink, mixed media, Zentangle, jewelry making, cross stitch, photography
- Food - Paleo - Autoimmune Protocol, recipes, herbs, healing herbs
- Fitness - weight loss, hiking, swimming, yoga, lifting weights, letterboxing
- Health - lupus, Sjogren's Syndrome, chronic migraine, vasculitis, arthritis, CFIDS, fibromyalgia...these are a portion of the autoimmune illnesses I've been diagnosed with and I have opted to treat the symptoms holistically
- Community/Social Issues - causes I support, fundraising, guerrilla poetry, random acts of kindness (RAKtivism)
- Books - mostly books I'm reading, but also ones I'm writing
- Spirituality - No dogma, but I am an agnostic Buddhist, humanist sort
Another thing or two you should know about me. I use a pen name because using my legal name has become unsafe. I was abused physically, sexually and mentally by my biological father for the first 16 years of my life and I finally told on him 30 years later when it became apparent that he was still a dangerous pedophile despite supposed "years" of counseling. As a result, I will also not reveal the names of my friends & family so as to also keep them safe, but I would like to introduce you to some of the important people in my life and how I will refer to them:
Hubs - self explanatory. We've been married nearly 19 years.
Bebecita - my adult daughter
Cito - my future son-in-law (collectively, I usually call them the kids, bebecitos or the kidlets)
Loco - our crazy little black kitty
Stripes - our little tabby
Devil Doggie (or DD) - American Eskimo pup
Piggy Puppy (or PP) - our rescue pup
Freighbors - Our wonderful neighbors who have become good friends over the years & this term describes at least 7 of them
Squirrels - my belly dance troupe, also known as my dance sisters
Monster - biological father - I don't anticipate talking about him too much, but that is how I have been referring to him most of my adult life and I have a lot of work ahead of me since I'm still healing, so he's bound to creep and slime from the closet from time-to-time
As for my various other friends, I'll just use their initials. You might be wondering about the lack of other family members. My mother passed away several years ago, I'm an only child, and I only have a handful of cousins I speak to on the Cuban side--they are also among my closest friends, so I will use their initials as well.
Other things of note: I'm generally quirky, I have eclectic tastes in pretty much everything except Jimmy John's where I always order a #6 with sauce & light onions, I like bold, bright colors, I'm a terrible housekeeper (work in progress...following the Flylady for guidance right now), I have a bad habit of over-committing myself, I like whiskey and white wines, I have no sense of smell which causes some interesting experiments in the kitchen and I've been told that I smell like sandalwood incense (I haven't always suffered from anosmia & still burn my favorite incense as habit). I'm an open book except where it concerns my personal safety and the safety of those I love. If you'd like to learn more about me, please ask!
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