I have shared before (here and here) that art-making is my love language. This week I have another example of this to share with you: One of my partners, Seth, has fairly recently moved into a new place. At some point when I was over, he told me that he would like to get more art for the apartment, but doesn't really know where to start or even what he likes. Challenge accepted. For his birthday, I decided to paint something for him. I wanted it to be weird (Seth likes weird)

Nerves don't show on x-rays. Apparently underwire and IUDs do. Cutaneous lateral femoral nerve syndrome, also known as meralgia paresthetica, is a condition where the nerves that provide sensation to the skin of the outer thigh become compressed or entrapped. Characterized by burning pain, tingling, or numbness on the outside of the upper leg, it does not affect leg strength. This condition is relatively uncommon, though there was an uptick in cases in the mid-2000s when it w

Last week, I took the week off from ... everything. I met one of my best friends in the world in Valencia, Spain. He was singing with his chorus as a part of the Gay Games. I was along for the ride. In anticipation of the trip, I bought myself a small, lightweight sketchbook that can fit in the bag in which I store my markers. I wanted to do some plein air sketching, to capture those details and vistas that always interest me but that I rarely take the time to render. I was s

A selfie we took on a recent outing A little less than a year ago, a friend and I sat over coffee to catch up on our lives. I asked about the new woman she was seeing. Her eyes grew wide and she whispered, “Tracie, I don’t understand it.” Her voice was quiet, but full of incredulity, “she’s really into me, and I haven’t even made her come, yet!” My heart broke a little that my friend thought so poorly of herself she was confused when someone liked her outside of sexual grati

In the ongoing journey of coming home to myself, I recently decided to leave my almost-full-time payroll position in order to pursue writing more full time. There have been some positive steps in that direction, but a girl's still gotta pay the bills, so there's a lot of other stuff still happening. But that's not what this post is about. This post is about my love language of art-making, my love of the Muppets, and my deploying both of those loves on my now former-colleagues