Recent conversations in LJ, as well as a conversation with Eseme on this sweater and thoughts on my baby boy cousin and my upcoming baby-mystery-gender cousin have me thinking about children and gender ( Read more... )

As always, I find that what I'm most grateful for are people - I'm a little in awe of the love that surrounds me, and the encouragement, the prodding or help up when I need it ( Read more... )

I am gonna be
The kind of woman I want my daughter to beThis lyric caught my attention, and made me think - well, am I? What kind of person would I want my child to be, and am I living up to that ( Read more... )

Some recent conversations with a handful of different people - and some very old conversations coming back to mind - have got me thinking ( Read more... )

Let's see how clearly I can manage these thoughts ( Read more... )

Don't you hate it when you have the perfect phrase and no-where to use it?

Thought swimming around my brain lately:

That's the way you've chosen to become, and, of course, that's your right. I wouldn't dream of asking you to be something different than what you're decided you're going to be. I'd just be more comfortable if you'd be such ( Read more... )

Night fell, ( Read more... )

Sometimes I'm such a mass of contradictions that I confuse even myself ( Read more... )

Facets of me, façades of me, avatars of the myriad of bits inside me ( Read more... )