confessions of a reformed tourist
(Click here to start at the beginning.) I am on my back, musing that it totally sucks to be a turtle. The doctor holds one leg and my mom holds the other. The doctor looks down and reports, huge smile on her face, “Your vagina is stretching quite nicely!” Um… Thank you? I almost laugh, [...]
(Click here to start at the beginning.) Thursday, May 18th, 2006. Four days before my due date but I planned to be two weeks overdue. I had lots of nesting scheduled. I was carrying small and feeling great. I had only stopped working ten days earlier, and only because of my swollen ankles. First thing, [...]
When I first arrived in Grenada in April of 2005 I was so malnourished, my skin would bruise under the barest touch. I was drowning in depression, hardly able to bear food in my mouth. Thankfully, I was coherent enough to want to get better. I knew that living under the tropical sun would just [...]
