05 October 2008

Denials from Their Child and Grandchild

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Today a sadness set in. I was working on my bike, which can get me meditative sometimes. (As if I need to be more meditative!) It rained las...
04 October 2008

A Prism of Time

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A few weeks ago I signed onto a website called classmates.com. On it are pages for high schools, colleges and other institutions (prisons? m...
03 October 2008

Losing the old game

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Today I was dragged into something kicking and screaming. And I came out, well, on a kick. I don't have classes on Friday, so I wouldn...
02 October 2008

Thursday classes

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Another Thursday, my longest day of the week. On "normal" Thursdays, I have a break in the middle of the day. But today I had a me...
01 October 2008

Grandma's Birthday

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Today I was thinking about my grandmother. Today would've been her 95th birthday. She died only two days after she turned 68. A few year...
30 September 2008

Things I Used To, And Might, Do

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Today I had the day off for a holiday I haven't celebrated in nearly twenty years. And the period of my life during which I observed tha...
28 September 2008

Giving Birth to the Present

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Today I got to talk to Millie in passing. I mentioned that I have purchased a ticket to spend Christmas with Mom and Dad. I think I saw a te...
27 September 2008

Another Adolescence? Wisdom?

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Drizzly and damp. Not quite the stormy day forecast for today. But it's been one of those days that keeps lots of people indoors, or kee...
26 September 2008

Passages and the Rain

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Rain, again. I mean, tonight. It started last night and has fallen nearly all day. And it's supposed to stop and start again tomorrow. I...
21 September 2008

Compartments

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This cold. Yeah, it's all about that now. This cold, and the way my nose feels like someone poured epoxy into it and stuffed it with bro...
20 September 2008

A Cold at the Speed of Light

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Today my sinuses are more toxic than the Jersey swamps. Fell asleep for a couple of hours late this afternoon, woke up to blow my nose again...
19 September 2008

No Choice But Both

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So now I've about nine months and two and a half weeks until the surgery. So many metaphors, analogies and images present themselves to ...
16 September 2008

Boy or Girl? Black or White?

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Today a student who missed class last Thursday showed up. The first time I saw her, I took a liking to her: She seemed like an intelligent a...
14 September 2008

Passing Through

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Sometimes silly things make my day. Like the guy I passed while riding down Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach. He was even more weatherbea...
13 September 2008

X and Y on a Quiet Saturday

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A slow day today, as they say. Should I complain or boast about that? Probably not. It just turned out that way, and I needed it. Why? So I ...
12 September 2008

Lunch With Bruce, 30 Years Later

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Today I went to lunch with Bruce at SoHo Natural, a restaurant around the corner from his workplace. We'd gone there once before and lik...
11 September 2008

Running Away

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This morning I pedalled to work under skies overcast with herringbone clouds that, paradoxically, posed no threat of rain. The air was pleas...
07 September 2008

After Yesterday, Being and Becoming

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What does a gender transition do to your sense of time? More to the point, does it change the way you see your past as well as your present?...