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  1. My Mother Has Died

    My mother passed away yesterday evening in the hospice. My father, my wife, and I were in attendance at the time. Her last couple of days were so hard, that it's truly a relief to see her at peace at last. Now, the focus turns to my father. We need t ...

    - 2008/01/18 - 3:52am - 13 comments

  2. A Comic I Liked

    Uncle Ghastly, the perpetrator of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, is drawing some other randomish things on Webcomicsnation these days. He's not unfamiliar to transgender themes, although he likes to be crude about it. You have been warned. For Comic, ...

    - 2008/01/25 - 9:40pm - 1 comment

  3. Re: Your Apology

    I'm not going to gloss over the reality that you really, really upset me. I don't expect everyone to agree with my human rights stance on issues and my "politics." Reasonable, and reasoned, debate is always interesting. ...

    - 2008/02/02 - 12:16am - 17 comments

  4. A Very Big Day

    Today is a very big day in the U.S. It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans. It's the day of the Giants victory parade in New York City. And, it's Super Tuesday, a day on which 24 States have their Presidential primary. So, get out there and catch b ...

    - 2008/02/05 - 6:47am - 4 comments

  5. Wigging Out

    I haven't posted anything in a couple of weeks, and I just found myself writing a message to a company that specializes in dressing boys up as girls (tranniegear.com). Having re-read my own letter, and having a streak of narcissistic self-appreciatio ...

    - 2008/02/19 - 8:28am - 10 comments

  6. Names, Names, What's in Names?

    We were chatting about names, meanings, and which sex you might associate them with the other day in conjunction with one of the fine serials running. Then, today, I noticed this story in the New York Times. (online subscription required, but easy to get ...

    - 2008/03/12 - 11:16am - 3 comments

  7. Disappointed

    Author:  Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) Politics Scandal I'm disappointed in the resignation of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. ...

    - 2008/03/13 - 9:36pm - 13 comments

  8. Bicycle Awareness Campaign

    Author:  Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) bicycles This is part of a campaign for motorists to pay attention to bicyclists on the road, although it certainly doesn't seem like it at first: http://dothetest ...

    - 2008/03/15 - 10:11pm - 10 comments

  9. Labor of Love

    I hope I'm not being tiresome in reposting interesting tidbits I find elsewhere on the 'net every once in awhile. This story is about an FTM man, legally married to a woman, who opted to carry their child when she couldn't. For me, the most ...

    - 2008/03/20 - 3:28pm - 7 comments

  10. Eulogizing a Mom

    Someone tried to bring this column to my attention several days ago, but I only just found it myself. It's Dan Savage's eloquent eulogy of his mother. Many stories here have dealt with the family dynamics of "coming out" as transgender ...

    - 2008/04/10 - 5:00am - 1 comment

  11. Re: FTM, Trans, Porn, Boundaries

    This week's column from Tristan Taormino takes a look at what she characterizes as a new wave of "tranny porn". She reviews a number of movies featuring transmen. The reviews are explicit. The films don't sound like ones I'll be l ...

    - 2008/04/13 - 1:59pm - 2 comments

  12. Poignant

    Sometimes a paragraph or two will move me, a lot. This is from an article I just started reading. This scene is from a classroom in Toronto where, for over a decade, the author has been sponsoring a series of sessions to promote social and emotional liter ...

    - 2008/04/23 - 2:39pm - 2 comments

  13. The Essence Of Being

    I'm posting this here, because I think that readers who might otherwise enjoy a particular story are skipping over it because they're making certain assumptions about it that miss an important point. ...

    - 2008/04/26 - 5:29pm - 4 comments

  14. Transgendered Children-- Part 2

    Author:  Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) A couple days ago, someone posted a link to an NPR program on approaches to treating TG children. Here's part 2 of the series: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s ...

    - 2008/05/09 - 1:27pm - 4 comments

  15. An Anniversary!

    The "Member For:" counter in my account page here seems to have just flipped over to 3 years. Have I really been a registered Top Shelf-er for that long! ...

    - 2008/05/19 - 2:28pm

  16. Palestine

    Palestine Alyssa Plant has written one of the most sensitive and affecting tales of emergence. I just love the way it's developing. Anyone who hasn't read "The Road To Haifa" yet, is missing out on a beautiful story, at least I can say ...

    - 2008/06/10 - 10:59am - 4 comments

  17. Save The Drag Queens

    Funny parody video (of a climate-change Public Service Announcement) from the Seattle alternative newsweekly, "The Stranger". (Drag queens do not appear until 1:00 into the 2:51 film.) http://youtube.com/watch?v=3EIClOemRD8 ...

    - 2008/07/07 - 10:07pm

  18. Bra Guide-- Fit and Style Reference

    Just found this great bra reference page [click here] in the online Macy's catalog. One link has information on measuring size, which might be of great interest to crossdressers and stories about them, especially as it has the "formulas" fo ...

    - 2008/07/24 - 1:35am - 6 comments

  19. Olympic Sex Testing

    I just read this story in the NY Times: http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/lab-ready-for-s... ...

    - 2008/07/27 - 5:47pm - 5 comments

  20. Good Medical News For Me!

    Author:  Pippa K. Pippa K.'s blog Taxonomy upgrade extras:  General Audience (pg) Been suffering with a peculiar pain in my abdomen this past week, which I seem to get periodically and no one has been able to diagnose. One doctor thought it might be ...

    - 2008/07/28 - 9:58am - 6 comments

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