REBOOT - "Raised By Wolves" is now Recklass In The Next Chapter

It’s summer. Gorgeous afternoon sunshine, heat wave comin’ but not here yet, Chicago Live from Carnegie Hall tellin’ me that it’s “Only Love Beginning,” and I’m … Carried away by it all. It dawns on me, I have always been a California Sunshine Girl (as my father would say with a wistful and proud tenor … usually to my sister Kimm or about any of the various women he met as a car salesman in the infamous Inland Empire). It’s just that you, he and the rest of the world never knew it. But the image of me as a naturally athletic and active woman whose beauty stemmed more from her smile than her wardrobe, who lit up every space she graced, and celebrated the outdoor lifestyle that is our birthright in SoooooCal, is actually my default state of being. Until, that is, I remember that I’m trans. I’ve written about my dance with this moniker, this label, in my book, and I will confess that it is even now, a work in progress. But my personal dance doesn’t matter anymore