New header image for my site

Late last night I was searching the web for images of Persephone, since I’ve been using that analogy for the last couple of months to illustrate what it’s like to live with Endometriosis. I had images of hell in my head, images of the underworld, images of women in extreme pain. I had Goya’s art in my head, and Waterhouse’s paintings in my head. Looking at individual works by those artists however did not give me the image my brain was after.

And then I found this image at closet light:

It’s perfect.

I shared this with my husband, who wanted to know more about the artist. We googled the name he used in his reply to me on his site, and found out he’s also on deviantArt. This led me to ask my husband if he’s ever signed up with deviantArt, yet. He hasn’t, so I’m pestering him. :)
In the meantime, some of my husband’s old art can be seen on his website. I’m also pestering him to add his recent work, since he’s like this awesome layout, editing, book design, art department, maps and sometimes writer for Chaosium, Pagan Publishing, and Miskatonic River Press. :D

Thank you, David, for allowing me to use your beautiful artwork on my site. I have given you credit and a link to your site in the footer section of this website.

Possible website downtime

My website provider has informed me that they are moving my account to a new server soon, so if this website is unreachable, it’s only temporary - it will be back soon!

Minor change to this blog - affects comments

Effective immediately, I must initiate a new rule for comment posting. To try to get a handle on the hundreds of flagged spam messages I am receiving every week, I have set my blog posts to automatically close comments on articles older than 14 days.

This really upsets me to have to do this, but the spam is so bad that I’m not getting to legitimate comments by real people for two weeks to a month later.

I truly apologise to everyone who has not had a prompt reply from me, and I am sorry too that you will not be able to comment on any of my older blog posts. You can always send me an email at steph [at] livingwithendometriosis [dot] org to comment on any of my old posts.

Thanks,
steph

Video blogging

As of today, I have videos about Endometriosis on both Yahoo Video and YouTube.

The Yahoo video url is
http://video.yahoo.com/mypage?s=5484120&public=1

The YouTube url is
http://www.youtube.com/user/stephlwe

The username on both is ’stephlwe’ which stands for ‘Steph Living With Endometriosis’, to tie it to my Living With Endometriosis website.