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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 14
By Monica MThe third of the software skills is presentation and I shall cover my ideas and experience of this in two postings: one on makeup and one on dress. My feelings, overall, are that you need to...
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Got to hand it to you
I have woman's hands.My fingers are long and thin. My knuckles are not big or misshapen from manly manual labor.Moreover, my index fingers are longer than my ring fingers.In most women, the index and...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 15
By Monica MThis is a short follow-up story to my embarrassing lobby walk incident. Almost one year to the day, I ended up in San Francisco again. By now, I had been through Esprit and Southern Comfort...
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Video Me
This was totally unexpected!While staffing our booth at Hamvention three weeks ago, a video crew from an online ham radio news website interviewed some of my peeps and the video from those interviews...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 16
By Monica MClothes are one of the hardest things to get right even for cisgender women. You need to consider what colors best suit you, what styles best fit your shape, what patterns and textures look...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 17
By Monica M2010 was the year of two conventions: Esprit in Port Angeles (the classic coming-out convention) and Southern Comfort in Atlanta (the biggest convention of all). Esprit was really great for...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 18
By Monica M The final software skill one needs (in my opinion) and which really feeds and enhances all others is the internal female operating software. With apologies to Tolkien, “One skill to rule...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 19
By Monica M In 2011, having decided that the traditional transgender conventions did not hold a lot for me, don't get me wrong, they are very interesting… just not really my thing. I felt I needed to...
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Not a Day over 62
Last week, I changed my Facebook profile photo to the one you see on the right. In response to that change, I received 30 likes and a handful of positive comments. I also received a message from one...
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Putting On
Yesterday, I answered my Facebook friend's question about facial hair removal. Lisa also asked, "Do you wear makeup or foundation?"(Wow - What a compliment if she thought I didn't wear makeup or...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood - Part 20
By Monica M Another major influence on the development of my internal feminine software has been the various Feminine Power courses. These are a set of online courses (there may be a physical meet-up,...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 21
By Monica MIn April 2013, I went to Austin to take part in Teacher Training 2. I was already a Level 1 teacher from my training in Portland the previous year. Here I again met a wonderful bunch of...
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One Person's Journey to Womanhood – Part 22
By Monica MIn October 2013, my wife and I went to Boston. I went on the one-day course that Ginger held just outside Boston. There were only three of us taking the course. Ginger knew that I was...
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I’m All Ears
As an Avon lady for over 18 years, I have seen a lot of Avon jewelry come my way. And whenever that jewelry includes clip-on earrings, I almost always make a purchase because my Avon lady discount...
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Signs
In response to my clip-on earrings post on Monday, Robin wrote urging me to get my ears pierced. She mentioned that if the pain of getting my ears pieced was the issue, I had nothing to fear but ear...
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DMV Neanderthals
This beautiful teenager was hassled by the South Carolina DMV after passing the driver's license test and waiting to be photographed for the license. Chase Culpepper, who wears makeup and androgynous...
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Beatlemania
I loved The Beach Boys' music first, then I fell in love with The Beatles' music. I have been a Beatlemaniac ever since. During the height of Beatlemania, I acted indifferently towards The Fab Four....
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Got Support?
Jan Brown passed along a valuable online tool for folks seeking GLBT support and resources: GLBT Near Me.Enter your ZIP Code and how many miles you are willing to travel from your ZIP Code to get...
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