I have a bee in my bonnet again. It is about aging. Again. It isn’t that I am fighting it. On the contrary, I would like to grow old gracefully, but aging with grace shouldn’t come at the expense of other things. I should be able to be gracefully old […]
Content Warning. The subject matter of Diary of a Disordered Diet is eating disorders. Please don’t read if you might find this topic upsetting. I actually wrote this quite a while ago after I wrote another post and was trying to raise awareness about eating issues. It was meant as […]
Feeling like a change is needed I have been talking about feeling I wanted things to change for a long time. My impatience to see results has spilled over into my writing and I feel that I am going over the same ground quite a lot of the time. But […]
Recently I wrote about the disconnect I have experienced from myself and the way I have been thinking about my motivations for some of the things I do. One of these areas has been photography, the pictures that we choose to share, and the shape of things to come. I […]
I have mixed feelings about nudity. I can find being naked really liberating and sometimes I am totally on board with it, but my fragile body image and body dysmorphia can also make being naked an impossibility. My mixed feelings extend to taking pictures. I tend not to publish those […]
My issues with my body mean that things are never going to be picture perfect for me. The chances of any picture meeting the grade are slim, and there are always a lot of casualties along the way. This is hard for HL, who is often the photographer. I get […]
I wanted to post this picture as part of a new meme which is being hosted by my good friend Sweetgirl. I know that she has worked really hard on this project and has been absolutely thrilled with the participation so far. So the idea behind the Fun Theme Photo […]
Currently the prompt for SB4MH is to choose the most popular post you have written for the meme. I have been blogging about mental health for a while and when I went back through all of those I had written, the most read post in my Mental Health category was […]
The prompt for SB4MH this week is eating disorders. Actually, it is National Eating Disorder Awareness week, so it seemed a good time to write about this topic. It is something I have touched on before. I have been open from the beginning of this blog about the issues I […]
There is much focus on photography of the erotic kind this month for one reason or another. I see lovely pictures all over my timeline on twitter and on my blog feed. I am sorry not to be joining in as I have enjoyed the photography that we have done. […]
Standing in the window naked was not something I thought I would ever be comfortable with. And yet, there I am. I love what windows do. A tiny glimpse out and a tiny glimpse in. A slither of information that the mind is left to play with and turn over, […]
As this is the first Sinful Sunday of 2019 and also a prompt week, I decided to picture the letter F with all of the personal pictures that I posted on my blog last year. I started taking part in Sinful Sunday in February last year and what a year […]
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. — Marquis De Sade Don’t forget to check out the other Sinful Sunday contributions for this week
Dr. Martens Worn Different campaign is about celebrating diversity and individuality by focussing on people with a unique style who are connected by their rebellious spirit. I think that I appear very ‘normal’ to others. In some situations this can be a good thing but in others it is not. […]
The Sinful Sunday prompt this week is transmogrify which means to transform in a surprising or magical manner. The butterfly is associated with symbolism of change and transformation so it seemed apt for the prompt as well as to illustrate how I feel about my own personal transformation. Within literature, the […]
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace. Edmund Spenser ‘The Faerie Queen’ This shot with angel wings was one of the images we took during our few days away in […]
Our focus this week at The SWC is Exploration and the Great Unknown. As part of that, HL has written a post about our limits and how they have changed over time. There are things that we thought we would never do which we have since tried and made a […]
He had hunted the deer long and hard through the forest but it had seemingly evaded him. Tired and fed up, Fionn turned to retrace his steps, his dogs Bran and Sceolan, at his heel. Suddenly he entered a clearing and saw it there, the doe. He readied himself quietly […]
I think it is very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples. Susan Sarandon This week’s picture is HisLordship’s choice. I have an uneasy relationship with my nipples and so this image is very hard for me to post. I have posted pictures […]
I have loved having so much time over the holidays to think about my submission and about our relationship. I have had the time to contemplate where we are and where we might go next, both in the near and in the more distant future. I would like to say […]