Super Tuesday is March 3rd, just two days away. And it looks like Bernie has the lead by wide margins in at least twelve of the fourteen states, including the two largest ones, California and Texas.   But that won’t end the race for the nomination of the eventual DEM standard bearer, even if Bernie…

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Whenever I hear people fuming or fretting over Bernie Sanders’ policies from now on, my retort will be, “Please tell me: What part of ‘government of the people, by the people, and for the people’ offends or frightens you?” Then I’ll wait to hear the answer, respectfully.   Now that Bernie Sanders’ march toward the…

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The day after seeing Bernie Sanders at the Tacoma Dome, I fell ill with a killer cold, so I’ve been laid low for the past ten days.   Today I felt recovered enough for the first time to play pickleball, although I didn’t know how long I’d last. Turns out I lasted the usual two…

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Yay! I just heard back from my University of Washington doctor’s office about my concern over the lack of available online information about her.   One of her assistants called me to answer the questions I’d asked in my letter (there were several) and we had such a good time, we didn’t even get to…

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GRRRR!!  The University of Washington, where I’m scheduled to have my mastectomy, sent me  a letter with three questions to ask my insurance companies before my consultation on April 2nd. It arrived Friday afternoon.   So, immediately after getting the letter, I called United Health Care since their office was still open, to ask the…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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