Unlike most people, who are nervous before surgery, I have Christmas Tree Brain. I am elated (!) and can’t wait for it to be a done deal!   I only wish I wasn’t so elated that I could get some sleep!!!   But I just lie there in bed imagining having a flat, male chest…

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If there is a person in your life going through a transgender transition, it isn’t easy to find a greeting card to celebrate their occasion that meets them right where they are.   You won’t find any decent ones at Hallmark, that I know of. (I checked online and they were all pretty yawn-some.)  …

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People keep asking me, “Are you scared?” now that I’m thisclose to having my chest masculinization surgery.   Um… yes and no.   I’ve never engaged in the habit of “pre-worrying” about surgeries; I never could see the value in getting scared over “what might happen”or “what will recovery be like?”   I’ve had four…

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In Michael Cohen’s upcoming book, “Disloyal,” he traces the line between naked ambition and national treachery, both his own and his now-infamous client Donald Trump.   I’ve read the foreword and pre-ordered the book based on that because it’s riveting, even though it didn’t surprise me, since I listened to Cohen’s testimony before Congress.  …

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Because life is uncertain and I’m headed for surgery in 11 eleven days, tonight I wrote my own obituary.   It was a sobering exercise, let me tell you!   Now I suggest everybody do it.   I wrote it because I’m usually the one tapped to write the obits in my family (being the…

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The countdown begins.   If all goes according to plan, in two weeks from right this minute, I’ll be on my way up to Seattle’s U.W. Northwest Hospital to have my chest masculinization surgery.   That is, providing I pass the COVID test on the 22nd. (I’m steering so clear of people and contagion points…

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The fix for politics is really pretty simple:   The Republican Party needs to STOP exploiting the gullible by lying about fact-checking sites that expose them as the scoundrels they are.   It’s very hard to talk to far-right cultists because they have drunk the GOP kool-aid that feeds them the nonsense that legitimate fact-checking…

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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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