As Mother’s Day approaches, I have been thinking once more about the loss of my family and how it keeps affecting my life in subtle ways. I’m sharing what happened a few weeks ago as it is appropriate for what Read more…
May 1, 2025 Since the beginning of this story, the information coming to me in very fragmented form became like a puzzle which needed solving. There were not nearly enough answers as the question of my identity surfaced. Who am Read more…
At the end of October 2012 Patrick left me. We discussed the possibility of living together as friends, something I simply could not accept and told him so. How could I live beside someone who was supposed to love me, Read more…
Synchronicity is such a beautiful thing, when it happens one knows they are walking as they should. Yesterday my new birth certificate arrived identifying me as Gabriel Kacie Guevara. Seeing it in print as a legitimate birth certificate brought tears Read more…
March 5, 2025 The official document for my legal name change to Guevara arrived in my hands yesterday morning. There was knowledge it was coming because my health care card with the new name arrived last week, which seemed odd Read more…
PTSD is a cruel master! Triggers are what affect the place of organized thought in my mind. All the words disappear leaving a blank page. Sometimes for critical seconds, sometimes for minutes. The echo of footsteps in an empty hall, Read more…
Meanwhile things are really heating up with the new Genghis Kahn as thousands are unemployed, more are forcibly sent out of the country without due process or legality and the Ukrainians are told they have no value, giving them a Read more…
We met Carlos in Ecuador because we stopped in for a meal at his restaurant Taco Bello. We went back often as we enjoyed the meals he created. Carlos left his home in Mexico, heading into the United States, when Read more…
December 25, 2024 This has been such a year of change for me, sometimes blindsiding me quite strongly, forcing me to accept the unknown with new perspective. It all began with Bolivia and accepting a truth which can only be Read more…
December 12, 2024 I’ve been trying to find a connection with the constellation Cetus, which is Latin for whale, and a real constellation, but the stories connected to it did not fit with the incredible peaceful feeling left with me Read more…