So as of Tuesday night, I am home at last! There will be pictures and more stories at some point soon, but in the meantime it is just unbelievably good to be here, in this place that I love more than anywhere I’ve ever been. Waking up with my boy after a night [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Musing'
Sappiness about home
July 29th, 2006 · 7 Comments
Trannie Bookses
February 26th, 2006 · 10 Comments
I just finished both She’s Not There, the memoir of a Colby College professor who transitioned from male to female, and Luna, a YA novel about a high school boy who wants to do the same thing.
She’s Not There, Jennifer Finney Boylan – Boylan transitioned a few years ago, and tells her story from [...]
In the Old Man’s egg
January 18th, 2006 · 3 Comments
I just checked out The Neverending Story for the first time in my career as a librarian. This is the book. It was the first adult book I read. Right after the movie came out I found it on my parents’ bookshelf. (Why did they even have it? It’s not [...]
Helpless
September 4th, 2005 · 3 Comments
I don’t even need to specify why, do I? We’re all feeling it. I just want to go down there, get a few busloads of people, and start moving them into my and my friends’ houses…but of course that’s impractical for any number of reasons. I don’t know what to do or [...]
Tags: Musing
Crossing the line
July 18th, 2005 · 3 Comments
Last week I saw Me and You and Everyone We Know with JH. Excellent movie, by the way, despite (or perhaps because of) lots of discussion of poop. But what it really made me notice is how, sometime in the last few years, I crossed that crucial line between identifying more with kids [...]