Done with Quora…I hope

Over the past several years I have nursed what I can only call an unhealthy obsession with posting on Quora. To those unfamiliar it is basically a questions and answers forum. I answered all kinds of questions, and there was no problem answering questions about software, or counseling a teen that for their parent to……

Still Surviving at sixty five but happy?

These days we often get more than the three score and ten of the old recitation. We grow up, become adults raising children and often take care of our parents as well. Finally, we come to an age where there; are not obvious things to do. You’re too old for the conventional job market, maybe……

Christmas is over

and I received a very non present via Quora. I like to think I have acquired somewhat of a tough skin but this one transphobe’s posting cut me straight to the heart. It left me in tears and unsure of myself despite all I’ve read about transgender people and my own experiences. Those have often……

Covid and other things

I’m sorry I haven’t posted recently. This is good for me, so I’m trying to hold up my end of the bargain. This is mostly about medical things. But there’s other pieces plus the odd bit of this and that. I had a bad run this last winter. I discovered that benzopropene is not a……

Stenosis

A word one doesn’t want to hear about their vagina, whether spoken in their head or by a doctor. Stenosis is the narrowing of a structure in the body but in this case I’m referring to my lady parts. The theory is very simple. They create a vagina out of penile and scrotal skin and……

Passover

As I’m Jewish I have no comment to make on Easter other than to give my empathy to my Christian friends and neighbors for their loss. They too cannot join together in prayer on this most sacred of Christian holidays and that is truly a pity. Passover is a holiday of redemption. Where one looks……

Not enough stasis

Just when I was complaining about stasis the world explodes with all this michegas about beer, or maybe about something else I’d rather not think about. Each day our president gets on the news and spins some yarn about people holding hands in pews on Easter Sunday, and Dr. Fauci gets to correct all of……

The Holidays

Pictures of happy little girls and boys with father doting on them with an argyle sweater. Mom in cooking mittens holding a tin of cookies and let’s not forget spot the favorite dog and sparkie the cat. Out of doors stays the pure white powdery snow. Brought to you all by Hallmark(tm). But for most……

Why is retirement so difficult?

I find myself watching too much TV, but lack the energy many days to do more. It seems pointless and can be boring itself. Finding meaning is difficult to do now, as I’m not working — something which really lent some urgency to life as well as meaning. I have hobbies, but find I rarely……

Regrets

Sometimes we pretend to have no regrets in taking the extreme steps we’ve needed to take to live and hopefully prosper. These thoughts come to me in a bit of a funk — par for the course between depression and Parkinson’s. I think my transition has been very successful. I think little about my gender……