on the Seventh day…

Today is seven days ‘on the needle’. My ‘E’ was already much higher than most female-born people my age and ten to twenty times a male-born’s. My first dose put that initially somewhere between thirty or forty times that. I could feel my body and consciousness soaking in the ‘pink unicorn’ as it coursed through […]

the Path of Transcendence

02-03-2020 Today was the day. I left an early stage call to meet with my Endocrinologist. All went well and positive, my stats all looked good. At the conclusion of my visit, I left a few more vials of blood for testing and then got my first injection. After my hospital visit, I took a […]

Farewell Old Friend

02-02-2020 Once in 900 years a palindrome occurs, today being that day. After attending Candlemas service and running a brief rehearsal, I spent the evening at my favorite little veggie bistro. Sitting among the female couples and the odd hipster, I tipped a glass of bubbly and said goodbye to a guy named ‘Gil’. Tomorrow […]

Striking the Facade

01-23-2020 In Theater, we’re experts and building facades. We build structures that look like something real but only have a front shell and bracing. A person in theater has a choice – live life’s facades, or, knowing them for what they are, live life without them. Today one of my best facades was stricken from […]