aging and HIV

I love being a woman! At this age and with all I've lived and learned, I love being a woman more and more!

Amo ser mujer! A esta edad y con todo lo vivido y aprendido amo cada vez más, ser mujer!

resilient: (of a substance or object) able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching or being compressed.

Last year we were all rocked by a deadly new virus. Somewhat like the early days of HIV, we didn't really understand the modes of transmission—we just knew it was potentially deadly.

You know life can be so heart-wrenching difficult. In my most recent days I've had to look at life from a new lens.

It has been seven years since I have blogged with you, my sisters. I had no idea it had been so long. In part, I think it's "ok". No need to judge myself about my absence, but rather perhaps...

I forget to cry sometimes. I forget how. Is it really forgetting if I shove it from my mind?

(July 22, 2019, I was honored and privileged to be one of six volunteers needed internationally for a long-term non-progressor lymph node study. Please read... and thank you.) Early childhood, I...

Thirty years ago, December 20, 1989... The world news headlines read... "United States invades Panama" Dubbed "Operation Just Cause" it's prime purpose was to depose and capture the country's military...

I am devastatingly tired. Today it is a weight pressing on my spirit. It is almost as if it's the only emotion I have room for.