Today I received my marching orders and surgical body scrub for my upcoming transmasculine top surgery on August 24th.   It’s beginning to feel real now!!!   And what makes me most nervous?   You’ll laugh!   The freakin’ COVID-19 test that I have to take two days before surgery!   I’ve heard so many…

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Thinking back over my life from where I am right now, I wonder if others think of me as selfish or self-directed? Or simply obsessed with “catching my dreams”?   When I graduated from Cle Elum High School in 1969, the theme songs our class chose for the graduation ceremony were THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM (aka…

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  Given our white-washed history, it’s fair to ask ourselves as a nation, “Do Black Lives (Really) Matter?” or are we just talking the talk?       I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!   “You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.”   We’ve recently witnessed something we haven’t seen in…

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Our new quartz counter tops are scheduled to be put in on August 5th, which is a helluva lot later than we were told fabricating them and installing them would take.   So I’m not happy with the counter top place we went with. We went with them, even though they cost more, because they…

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I’ve just read GEORGE and RICK, two books by Alex Gino. I wish there had been books like this at Scholastic when I was growing up, to help explain to me who I am and that there were others like me, but there are now, so I’m overjoyed for the LGBTQIA+ kids who are growing…

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I just got back from the initial consultation at the University of Washington’s Northwest Hospital for my transmasculine top surgery.   I agreed to the recommended procedure for a human with my size boobs and will be getting a mammogram soon to get a baseline for my breast health. This is required because with chest…

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I am not ashamed to proclaim “Joe Biden for POTUS.”   He wasn’t my first choice (Sanders), or my second (Warren), but only because he’s a centrist and I’m not. (Here in the U.S., centrist = Republican Lite.)   But I met  Biden while he was Vice President, and our brief exchange (and because I’ve…

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I hope your 4th of July is goat-ally perfect where you are!   By goat-ally perfect, I mean…   Quiet (very few if any fireworks) to scare goats and other blast-averse beings (including soldiers and veterans with PSTD)   Only with family members you cohabit with, and your closest friends, as long as they’re masked,…

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Images: Lisa and me on the Orting Trail These photos were taken during a solar eclipse a couple years ago.   Lisa and I are back on the Orting bike trail three days a week until my chest masculinization surgery happens in late August or early September (COVID containment willing).   I want to do…

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Here in Washington State, mask-wearing in public is now mandatory as of two days ago. Those who refuse to wear masks are guilty of a misdemeanor.   Lisa and I went bike riding from Orting to South Prairie on Friday morning. Naturally, we didn’t wear masks while riding our bikes, as we were physically separated…

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