Category: Earlier Chapters

Happy New Year!! 2021 is off to a bang for us! We manifested a new home on five acres of beautiful desert in Landers and moved in on NYE!! It’s been 16 months since we lost our apartment in Long Beach. We spent 3 months living in a mini van, 3 months in an Airstream,…

I feel for everyone losing friends and family to the QAnon cult. I lost several new friends to it recently, people I had come to love deeply and was somewhat dependant on. I thought I had discovered a new tribe of open-hearted, loving souls who embraced me and my family and were on the right…

So disappointed in JK Rowling. I actually had this come up recently with a respected friend and felt so offended by his words. But the honest truth is I didn’t really understand this issue very well myself before my own daughter came out as transgender a year and a half ago. Transgender women are women…

Thank you to the friends who have invited me to create a fundraiser to help me and my family get back on our feet. It’s been hard to share my story or to ask for help, especially over the past year and a half. There has been a lot of blame and shaming coming at…

I’m finding it difficult to share these days because frankly it’s not that much fun telling my story right now. But the isolation is worse so here goes… It’s been 4 weeks now since we became unexpectedly homeless. (The short version of that if you missed it is that my kids’ dad lost his job…

Today we’re moving the last of our stuff out of the apartment that has been my home for the past 8.5 years and beginning our adventure in temporary homelessness. We have not yet been able to find a campground, yard, or driveway that could hold the trailer we’ve borrowed, so it’s still in storage in…

We had so much fun marching in the Long Beach Pride Parade yesterday! My girls have been watching the parade for the past few years and loved getting to march this year. It felt great to celebrate Nadia’s courageous transition over the past year and the fact that she is now out and expressing as…

I’m so incredibly proud of and inspired by my sweet girl. Yesterday she announced to her 8th grade class that she is transgender and asked everyone to start using her chosen name, Nadia. She had tons of support from her teachers and she said most of her classmates responded really well! She went in nervous…

Please send love to my daughters and I this week if you can! Things have been a bit dramatic lately. Nadia has been really struggling at her Dad’s house. He’s been having a very hard time accepting and supporting Nadia’s recent shift in identity. From what she tells me, she has had multiple yelling matches…

I have some big news to share and I feel a bit vulnerable about going public with it, but here goes. There’s been a big transformation in my family over the past several months. In October, my 13 year old came out as transgender. I had always known her as my son Aidan and I…