The one about Being Off Instagram for a month … and counting?

Who would have thunk it, right? I’ve never been off Instagram before. I’m talking deactivate my account kind of ‘off Instagram’. Sure, I’ve deleted the app off my phone a few times, but my account was always still active and it was usually short lived; much shorter than a month’s duration. So why did I take such a drastic measure, you ask?

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The one about Encounters With Frida Kahlo

I must have heard about her or seen pictures or paintings of her many times  before it ever registered in my brain who she was. I’m pretty sure at some point I just thought she was a random (and perhaps popular) historical figure with a unibrow and that was probably one of the most popular things about her; the unibrow. Oh, my ignorance and naïveté!

I began to get more familiar in 2015. I was visiting my friend who was living in Mexico at the time. She lived in Monterey and believe it or not, she lived on ‘Avenida Frida Kahlo’. I’m not sure why Read More