Lady&Fang was born of love and passion via painted wooden letters in 2016 with a simple, hope-filled message, “Good things on the horizon…” Life seemed to start energetically enough with a peppy website, enough husky pictures to drown in, and the fledgling posts containing books, yoga, and general anxiety. Time passed and I began to stumble haplessly through mis-managed posts, largely due to my passion being extinguished by untreated depression/anxiety and other misfortunes of life. I began to question who I thought I was… What could I provide that countless others were not already? How could I ever be a voice worth hearing when I couldn’t be bothered to listen to myself?
Lady&Fang began to fear she would go the way of my previous creations… cast aside on a dark lonely shelf in the corner of the forgotten web… but, Lady&Fang refused to take the loss laying down. She began to intertwine herself into everyday posts, rooting into every crevice of my social media, until the muscle memory and digital memory could only be separated by the most skilled of future tech surgeons and there she waited.
Lady&Fang would whisper that someone might take comfort in my good days and bad days. That sharing and creating community helps to increase the number of good days, might even give me back some feeling of purpose in a world spinning off axis. Occasionally I would try to dust off the early incarnations… but found myself increasingly frustrated when they no longer fit. I began to wonder if I had simply outgrown Lady&Fang all-together. I am no longer just a young woman cuddling her rambunctious husky in a poorly lit one-bedroom apartment.
I am a young woman cuddling her rambunctious husky and two darling step-fur-babies, while simultaneously being cuddled by my soul-flame Daniel. I am much more than my wine-induced naming triumph of girl + dog = Lady&Fang… yet, I was more then too… and that’s the accepted truth that made it all make sense again.
I am more.
Always have been more.
The truth of Lady&Fang is in her constant duality for me. She might have started as a simplistic, surface level “A ha!” moment, but she evolved into meaning, Me, myself, my loves, my demons, my sanity, my insanity…
Me.
Lady & Fang 