Tag: translife
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Built for right now
I’ve been thinking these last few days about everything I have been through and how it was hard at the time in most cases, but how some of these things didn’t feel as hard until after the fact. Like in the moment I was just surviving and pushing through, not realizing that one day things…
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Current Situation
So… Things are rough in the US right now. I go back and forth between fucking BRING IT and absolute and total fear for these next four years. Honestly I worry more about Child #2 than myself but the absolute worst possible case scenario that anyone can dream up is pretty awful. Concentration camps? Arrested…
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So here we are, 2025
I’ve been thinking that I need to get back to blogging for awhile now. So much has changed and the world around us is so different than it was just a few months ago. I felt a strange aversion to blogging, like it was just too much work. That’s not true, it’s never been true,…
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It’s Real!
Last week I finally took my name paperwork to the probate court to start the process to change my name. I can’t believe I finally did it. It feels crazy to think that just a few years ago I thought all of this was impossible. But it is possible and I am doing this. I…
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Back at it
Last night was my first time back at lacrosse practice since surgery. It was easy to be there and I didn’t feel tired while I was there. I feel tired today, however. I hate how surgery takes away stamina for daily life and activities. I don’t think I am excessively active normally, so it seems…
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Dueling Journeys
Here’s a timeline of my journey to become Zander: Age 4 – I vividly remember sort of waking up and becoming conscious of myself as a person, a male person. I started choosing my own clothes and toys and I remember loving Spider-Man and other superheroes. Age 8 – My parents bought me a pink…
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Daily Prompt 9/27/24
The trait I value most about myself is my charisma, or my rizz as my gen z/a kids hate me saying. It’s taken me my entire adult life to even realize and acknowledge that I have charisma. I have thought for a long time that I am introvert and need to be alone and away…
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Becoming Zander FOR REAL
I have been gone for a long time. I was stuck in my own head and in my own healing. I have been doing therapy every other week this entire time and really taking a hard look at my life, who is in it, and what changes I need to make to be my best…
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Pieces of me
Going to my last ever (as we know it) college reunion this past weekend was one of the most defining moments of my adult life. It felt important to go because I knew so many people that were also going, but I also wanted to take the time to savor the moments I had there.…
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Updates and More
I keep jumping on, writing a post, intending to get back at blogging daily but then I don’t. I can’t really figure out why this keeps happening. I started out the year strong, but got distracted for some unknown reason. Maybe it’s just that I got really busy with kid sports and life. Maybe I…