For Those Just Logging In

Hi Friends,

I haven't updated this site in quite a while, and I don't think I need to anymore. I started this site to chronicle my transition, and I did. I'm 5 years past my transition, and 3 years past surgery, and life is good. Really good. It wasn't always that way, as you'll find if you read through my old posts. But it was a journey, and I continue to learn a lot every day.

If you are on the road to transitioning, well, I won't tell you the road is easy. It's not. But if it's right, then it's worth it. Feel free to browse through the posts. They start pretty much at the beginning of my decision to transition.

Have faith, people will surprise you. And don't forget, you're stronger than you think and you're not alone. And you are loved.

Your brother,
Deen

No Post in Long While

Hey peeps, I been traveling all over the Northwest United States, and then down to Florida. The Northwest was an RV roadtrip with a friend, and it was an experience. But all roadtrips are. I would never do it in an RV again, the carbon footprint is appalling. But the land is just beautiful. I don' think a camera could do it justice. And the people were real friendly. I'll get a picture with my new cowboy hat for you to see.

Florida was to see my parents and it was AMAZING in that it was completely ordinary. We played scrabble and cards, ater dinners together, read books, walkied on the beach, talked and laughed. I am so grateful to have had that.

We also saw lots of dolphins from the window of my parents' condo, and that was truly special.

I saw the surgeon, Dr. Fischer, on Monday and I am on schedule healing-wise. There is still some swelling and she's going to see how it is in a few more months, and if it's stubborn, she has injections that will break it up. The nurse said to massage the area around the stitches to help break it up and smooth it out. I'll try and post a picture soon.

Short Movie Reviews

Romero
Raul Julia plays the priest who stood up for human rights in El Salvador in the late 1970's.
VERY GOOD

Beyond The Call
Sissy Spacek reconnects with her first love, David Strathairn, who suffers from PTSD after Vietnam and is now on death row.
VERY GOOD

Safe Passage
Susan Sarandon and her six sons and estranged husband come together as they await news about the seventh son who is in a military zone and may have been a casualty of a bombing.
PRETTY GOOD

Serving In Silence
Glen close plays a military woman who comes out as gay and sues the army when they try to discharge her.
NOT BAD

The Last of the Blond Bombshells
Judi Dench and Ian Holm are musicians from the second world war and try to get their band together again.
NOT BAD

Love Actaully
Four interconnectin stories about love with lots of famous people in it.
VERY GOOD

Drop Dead Gorgeous
A smart comedy about beauty pageants, starring Kirsten Dunst.
PRETTY GOOD

One True Thing
Meryl Streep gets cancer and her daughter played by Renee Zellweger comes home to take care of her while her father (William Hurt) continues teaching.
VERY GOOD

Paradise Road
A bunch of women are captured during WWII and Glen Close leads them in song.
NOT BAD

Between Strangers
Three not very interconnected stories about people and their inner truths that are coming out, sort of.
INTERESTING

The Long Walk Home
During the time of the civil rights movement and the bus boycotts, Sissy Spacek is a white woman who helps her black maid played by Whoopi Goldberg, get to and from work.
PRETTY GOOD

Stacking
Christine Lahti is a wife and mother who wants to get out of this nowhere town, while her drunk husband is in the hospital, and her daughter is trying to save the farm with the help of her uncle.
PRETTY BAD

Return
A 1970's semi-sexy movie about intimacy and loneliness and stuff like that.
EH.

Big Love, Season 2
Follows a polygamist Mormon family in Utah.
LOVED IT.

The Waltons (one of the earlier seasons)
A poor family in the Virginia mountains living through the 1930s depression.
LOVED IT. STILL LOVE IT. WISH I COULD WATCH MORE OF IT!