In those early 1990’s, my fabulous Mary Janes with their chunky heels went with burnt-out velvet tops and a super-black, ice-skating-skirt-shaped number (also velvet; are you kidding me right now?!) and oh yes, stockings with the seams up the back. (What a PAIN to put on, but so worth it. So definitely worth it.) Despite […]
What follows is the story of how I came finally to embrace my gender identity in my forties. Being the femme I am feels settled, solid, and true, just as much of the rest of my middle age does. I identify as a sovereign, queer, cis femme, assigned female at birth and brought up as […]
Dear ones – I write to you under the azure sky of a sunny autumn afternoon. These days are beautiful in the Pacific Northwest, when the rains have begun but aren’t yet constant. The dogwood in the courtyard is turning the most lovely and unexpected russety red. We have put new lilies into the ground, lilies named […]
(The below was originally a Facebook post from 26 September 2019) So, I learned from Be Nourished’s blog that it is Weight Stigma Awareness Week, begun in 2011 and currently supported by the National Eating Disorder Association. As it is the week for it, I suppose it makes sense for me to share some of […]
Dear hearts – Today, as I say in my video, is all about the light. It’s all about the middle of autumn, the height, or the midst, if you will, of the light’s dimming. Of the light’s slanting, here in the Northern Hemisphere where, even as we grow closer to Sol, our yellow star, our sun, the […]