Alex

So here’s the ranger station I lived at, and I tried to (more or less) capture it in Continental Divide. To take this picture, I… Read More »Eleven: Reading

This is one of my favorite photos from my time in Wyoming. My “truck shot.” Note the baseball hat. Still wearing that tomboy style. Jeans… Read More »Ten: Daily Life…

You can tell from the title of my forthcoming novel, Continental Divide, that rivers play a role. The river in the novel, and in the… Read More »Nine: The River

Back in 1997, when I arrived in Wyoming, I didn’t know the phrase “going stealth.” That’s the current (somewhat contentious) term in the trans community… Read More »Seven: Stealth Life

The previous entry talks about my social transition – the summer before my senior year in high school I came out as transgender, cut my… Read More »Six: Where am I?

Up to this point, the blog posts I’ve done have mostly provided the backstory to the protagonist of Continental Divide and explained a little bit… Read More »Five: Social

Somewhere right around adolescence, I lost the word “tomboy” – it’s that rare gift of a word in our language, insofar as it is descriptive,… Read More »Four: Jock

Here are two pictures from when I’m seven; between them, they do a pretty good job of showing where I started in terms of figuring… Read More »Two: Figuring it Out

If you know me, you know I don’t hang on to many things (books would be the main exception and even those I’ve cut down… Read More »One: Bear Spray