My Marching Orders for Tomorrow
My marching orders for tomorrow are: Drop my ballot (WHEEE!!!! Another Bernie vote!!!) in an elections drop box so it can’t get stolen from my mailbox Call Medicare to confirm that it will cover my upcoming transmasculine top surgery and that my secondary insurance will cover the balance (I called my secondary insurance…
This T-Shirt is FAKE NEWS
For the past couple of years, I have poured over hundreds of transgender t-shirt options in search of the ones most likely to state, in as few words as possible, what I feel as a person who is transgender and about to undergo gender affirmation surgery. Among the few I chose were the featured image…
Midnight Brilliance Disappears at Daybreak
Midnight brilliance is elegant, wispy, ethereal. And it’s next to impossible to hold onto it unless you capture it in the moment while it’s happening. I know this! Which is why I’ve told myself a hundred times, “That’s a great insight. I’ll write about that tomorrow. So I really should get up just…
Anxiety and Depression Have Increased Under Trump
Every time I enter a doctor’s office these days for anything (wellness check, transgender diagnosis, etc.) I get a piece (or two) of paper inquiring into the status of my mental health. The questions include, “How many times this week have you felt depressed or anxious?” “On a scale of one to ten, how…
How to Help Bernie (For Introverts)
Like many people who support Bernie Sanders with every fiber of my being, I don’t have a bank balance worth mentioning and I’m not an extrovert. The idea of phone banking or knocking on doors puts me into a cold sweat. So I do what I can–what I’m best at. I write about him.…
In 2020 Only Radical Goodness Can Defeat Radical Badness
Tonight while watching the Democratic debate, I had a epiphany: This year–which will determine which way our country and the world will go in ways never imagined before–we need a stark, obvious contrast if Democrats are going to wrest control from Trump and his disastrous, misled, bought-and-paid-for minions. Half measures and compromises won’t…
Bernie Sanders Tacoma Dome Rally Report
Lisa and I were among the first several hundred people in line at 3:00 (an hour and a half before the doors opened) when we arrived in chilly weather to get in to see and hear Bernie Sanders at the Tacoma Dome yesterday. Bernie Sanders chose Tacoma (YES! TACOMA!!!) as his first Washington State…
My Own Sister Proclaims Herself One of the Cult of Trump
It’s a sad state of affairs when one’s own sister says she would hire Trump to run her bank or her business and to babysit her female grandchildren. Yes, she said that. I was so appalled when I asked her if she’d trust him in those ways, I just had to call it quits…
Busy Editing and Enhancing Copy and Content
For the past week to ten days I’ve been swamped editing and enhancing copy and content (two different niches) written by a handful of clients — some new, some long-time customers. It’s as if a floodgate has opened and I love it. Because there’s no better pastime for a writer than to be writing words from…
Countdown to My Chest Masculinization Surgery
Today I called Northwest Hospital for an update on my place on their waiting list, and got my chest masculinization surgery (officially called transmasculine top surgery) scheduled for Thursday, April 2nd. WOO HOO! So naturally, tonight I have Christmas Tree Brain. I can’t sleep, so I may as well share what’s going on inside …