20 July 2009

A Butterfly Under A Heat Lamp Grows A Fur Collar

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I know...Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong took his--the human race's--first step on the moon. If I were a world-famous blogger (or...
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19 July 2009

Walking In, Walking With

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Today was another sunny, warm, and dry day. I imagine I would have encountered daytime weather like this in Trinidad had I gone a few weeks...
18 July 2009

Sleeping With Experience, Waking To Lessons

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I seem to have been alternating between sleep and hyperactivity since I got home from my surgery. As far as I can tell, this is normal: I ...
16 July 2009

Rest and Encouragement for the Journey

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I've been drifting in and out of consciousness today. I don't think any travel date has left me as tired on the following day as ye...
14 July 2009

Beginning in Trinidad

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At the Morning After House, where I have been staying since my release from Mount San Rafael Hospital, manager Carol Cometto keeps a guestbo...

On The Eve: Bastille Day

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Tomorrow I'm going home. As nice as this place is, I'm looking forward to going home. Danny, the very sweet (and handsome!) trans ma...
13 July 2009

Nurse Phyllis

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Imagine that the magician has a woman on the table and, instead of sawing her in half, he pulls endless silk scarves out of some orifice of ...
12 July 2009

The Day After

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Yesterday I was released from the hospital. Joyce, my roommate during my last two days there, was about to take her first walk as a woman. ...
10 July 2009

Sleeping Off The Past 50 Years

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Last night, I fell asleep some time shortly after 7:30 pm and woke around 6:30 am. For some people, that is not a remarkably long slumber. ...
09 July 2009

After The Surgery: One Small Step for a Woman

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So here's my first post as a woman--at least, as most people's definition of a woman. Today I got out of bed for the first time si...
06 July 2009

The Last Day

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It looks like I'm leaving the male race--and living between two genders-- with a bang and diarrhea. I hadn't planned on either. Fi...
05 July 2009

Today I Arrived in Trinidad

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Today I arrived in Trinidad. I walked down Main Street, part of which was part of the Santa Fe Trail. Between the gingerbread houses and Vi...
04 July 2009

Strangers At 33,000 Feet; Where Friends Are

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Today, on Flight 745 from La Guardia to Denver International, I wrote the following in the notebook I keep in my purse: Today I am on a plan...

Pike's Peak Behind The Clouds

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"If thtose clouds would get out of the way, you could see Pike's Peak." So said the cab driver who brought me to the hotel in ...
03 July 2009

Packing: Mandatory Minimalism

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Some writer once sent another writer a very long letter he ended by apologizing for the length. "I didn't have time to shorten it,...
02 July 2009

Fatigue

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Now the fun begins. Five more days until surgery, and I keep on wondering whether I'm forgetting something. I don't mean as in stu...
01 July 2009

The Last Time; What's Next?

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Today I had lunch with Bruce. It is most likely the last time I will see him before my surgery. One might see it as a "good-bye"...
30 June 2009

Leslie Mora and Jackson Heights

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As much as my life as a woman has brought me so much more joy than living as a man ever did, I realize there is a risk of violence that I ne...
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