You should not be reading my blog today. You should be reading up on what’s what with politics and get your voting ass moving. There are crazy things happening in our world that make me want to vomit, like this. This country’s in dire need of change, but I’m still obsessed with whether if I […]
Author: Lisa
What Will Blogs Document?
After reading some updates on my cyber icon BFP, she raises this ultra-profound question, What Will Blogs Document? Synonymous with my daily pondering of what my life will leave behind when I die, I wondered what my blog would document should I die tonight, tomorrow, in 10, 50, 70 years? Did I document the most […]
Countdown to Gold
So this year has been my “golden year.”I turned 27 on the 27th of February, this constitutes my golden year. I’m not clear, still, on what defines a “golden year.” But if golden means to try to find gold, meaning digging, with my bare bleeding hands, through the broken edifice of my beliefs, changing core […]
I Could Not Make This Up
Saturday MorningApartmentAdonis and I are getting ready to go for a morning walk. This means we’re pulling on hats and sneakers in our pajamas. “So, are we going to see that Borat movie tonight?” Adonis, “Yeah, I think so. Is that alright with you?” “Yeah! I’ve been wanting to see it. [cue Sacha Cohen voice, […]
Halloween Inspires (my future) Daughter
So this is Isa*. She is the daughter of my cousin, Marilen.Isa is a devil.I am now ready for a child.I want a devil.Now. *Photos taken, arranged, and created by Marilen Mabugat.
The Thing About Smoking
I’ll admit it. I’m an anti-smoking occasional smoker. From my impudent college days, I put a puffer to my mouth and held the smoke in my cheeks, not inhaling, but so wanting to look cool. I’m orally fixated, my excuse excused me from the Surgeon General’s Warning, and upset! Then I actually started inhaling. I […]
Knowing Who You Are, and then Saying It
You know what completely inspires me? I love when people can succintly say what their passion, job, and reason for living is all one breath. Like: “HI. I”m a black activist and use my photography to explore sexual and queer politics.” OK.Now me. “HI. I’m a multicultured person and use my heroinandspeed-like thoughts to conquer […]
Get Alive
[I’m on the phone.] So, is meeting on the first of November good for you? Yes, Lisa, that’ll work. Here in Rexler Hall? Mhm. Yes, that’s fine. I’m sorry I haven’t received your messages, I don’t know how that happened. Oh, not a problem. Probably got buried someone in your inbox. Maybe, but I’ve tried […]
I Thought I Knew
My father is a psychiatrist, so you can understand when I say that I have grown up with mental health. Terms like schizoid, pathology, and etiology are as common to me as flour, water, earth.Still, the stigma and sting of therapy is no stranger. I’ve been in therapy for more years, off and on, than […]
You Can’t Make It Better
The last wedding I attended was one of the fanciest ones I’ve ever seen. Every man had either a dark suit or a tux on, every woman was wearing a black dress. This ostentatious parade could have easily been turned to a celebrity funeral. I could not believe how many variations of a black dress […]