“All My Hopes”   In the motion picture Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Lt. Uhura says, “All my hopes” as Kirk, McCoy and Sulu head off to face an enormous challenge.   I feel that way today…   Today, November 3rd, is Election Day in the Divided States of America. Those civic-minded patriots…

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My MOM ALWAYS WANTED A BOY   Alas, she didn’t live long enough to find out she had one… and that makes me sad… Since neither she nor I had any insights into the term “transgender” during her final year of life (in 1998), she passed away under the impression that I was a lesbian…

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MISTER ROGERS CAPTIVATES ME AGAIN   I’ve just finished reading a wonderful book, Kindness and Wonder: Why Mister Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever, by Gavin Edwards.   For a person who was all grown up and agreeably childless by the time Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood debuted, you might find it curious that I’ve become, after…

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Yesterday, the entire day and night, for the first time in almost four years, I felt downright peaceful.   I didn’t give Trump a second thought.   It was heaven on earth!   How nice it will be when every day will be like that again…   It won’t happen until at least January 20,…

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I’m considering doing a video rant.   I first imagined a more rational approach, but so few people listen to logic and facts these days.  They do respond to emotion, though, so I’m developing a solid script that should do the job if I can deliver it as well as it appears to sound in…

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Two days ago, I started an additional exercise routine.   Every two to three hours, I turn on jogging music and “jog/dance/boogie” in my den for ten minutes.   It’s a lot of fun. Ten minutes is only about three songs’ worth of exercise, so it goes by fast when I listen to music. (If…

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I just tried jogging for the first time since my chest was masculinized.   OMG! What a difference it makes.   It’s a lot less hard and I was able to sustain my first workout jog for ten minutes.   I started with five minutes on the timer but felt so good when the buzzer…

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“Anticipation…is making me wait…keeping me waiting…”   Those of us who have already voted– 50 million plus U.S. citizens–are on pins and needles, waiting for November 3rd to arrive and the final tally of total votes to be released. Which may not happen on November 3rd, but weeks or even months later, if the vote…

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My mood shifted from hopeless anxiety and hopping anger to hopeful anticipation over the past few days.   It has been a very long four years (especially the last eight months in isolation due to COVID) but I’m sensing a massive mood shift as the November election approaches…   People are swarming to the polls…

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I think a chief reason I became a writer is that my mind is like a giant metropolis. There is always so much bustling going on it it that I had to find a way to slow it down, sort it out, and separate the threads in it that define who I am and why…

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