04 May 2009

Lasts; What Will We See Next Time?

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Some people celebrate "firsts": the first date, the first job, the first apartment and...well, you get the idea. But now I find m...
03 May 2009

No Bike Ride In The Rain; What Women Want

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It rained most of the day today. So I didn't do something I thought I would do for the last time before my surgery: I didn't pedal...
02 May 2009

Dogfights and Dreams

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A dachsund rolled onto her back the way one of my cats would. A French boxer sniffed her belly then stepped over her. A couple of minutes la...
01 May 2009

What Does A Woman Do?

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Getting down to the wire now. It's the first of May. Just the rest of this month and June, and one week in July, until my surgery. It...
30 April 2009

Fatigue, Lunch and Survival

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I can't believe how tired I've been. Yesterday was the first time in weeks I haven't written on this blog. And now here I am, s...
28 April 2009

Time Travel

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Let's see...I began this bright, sunny (and unseasonably warm day) by listening to the Beatles' "Good Day Sunshine" and ...
27 April 2009

Coming Out and Glowing

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It seems that my energy or aura or whatever you want to call it is changing. Four different people--who, as far as I know, don't know ea...
26 April 2009

Changes: To The Ocean, Again

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Iowa may be a lovely state and they now have gay marriage. (Who'da thunk it?) Still, I don't think I could live there: It's way ...
25 April 2009

On My Bicycle, I Have A Wardrobe Malfunction

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I spent a good part of this day on the verge of a "wardrobe malfunction," as Janet Jackson so famously called it. The top I wore h...
24 April 2009

Another Moment Fugue

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We played a game of "smile tag." She started it. Honest. (Are you reading this, Dominick?) Bruce and I were having lunch at a Thai...
23 April 2009

Spaces

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Today I went for a haircut and coloring. I also got, for the first time since August, a facial massage and had my eyebrows shaped and tinted...
22 April 2009

Fatigue and Frustration

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Today I felt tired and fat and old. Maybe it had something to do with the chill and rain that grayed the air. Or, perhaps, it has to do with...
21 April 2009

Into the Mist, Prematurely

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Today I walked out the doors of the college's main building into a fairly heavy fog. I crossed the street to enter the college's sec...
20 April 2009

Coming In Out of the Cold

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Just when I thought I could go anywhere, any time, with nothing between my legs and the world but a couple of microns of nylon, I experience...
19 April 2009

The Present and The Moment

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Spent more time with Dominick today. We didn't do anything quite as stimulating as our visit to the Botanical Gardens the other day, but...
18 April 2009

Girls, Bikes, Kids and Ocean

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Lately, I seem to find myself talking, however briefly, with babies, toddlers and small children with greater frequency. If the kid can unde...
17 April 2009

Revisiting and Revising

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Last night I was talking with Dominick on the phone. I was recalling a time when I went with Tammy and one of her friends to a restaurant. S...
16 April 2009

Pedalling and Sleeping

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Today I took a bike ride I haven't taken in quite a while. It was unplanned: I'd orginally intended to cycle onto the Rockaway Penin...
15 April 2009

Who Should Play Transgendered People? How Sould They Be Played?

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Today I stumbled over a blog I plan to check out every chance I get. It's called "Femulate," and bills itself as "the web...
14 April 2009

Did They Ever Imagine This?

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Another rainy day in April. What else is new? Today there was a tornado watch where my parents live. Although I know I probably would have h...