“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Goethe
“An Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha!” -Robert Brault
Deanna Joy Hallmark
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Category Archives: Possibilities
It’s About Time We Got Over It
What I’m about to say is offered with love and very tough love at that. I have been thinking a lot lately about what I see happening in the Trans blogsphere and I want to share my feelings about that. … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Growing Up, Possibilities
Tagged feminine, gender reassignment surgery, girl, transgender, transition, woman
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An Open Letter to All Who Dream of the Impossible
The following letter is one I wrote which started out as a reply to a comment made by a reader who responded to my last post, “Free at Last, Free at last…” While it is addressed to her, I offer it as … Continue reading
Second Thoughts on Being Invisible
My post the other day about the lack of visibility for trans folks I must admit was so full of blaming others that it’s not even funny. I could have easily revised it or taken it off but then I … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Possibilities, Taking charge, Transgender, unconditional love
Tagged cisgender, coming out, diversity, girl, sister, transgender
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Thus Spake Deanna
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” -Sherlock Holmes Science, whether it be physics or politics is about having an idea, a supposition, if you will, and then experimenting with the … Continue reading
Posted in Possibilities, Shadow, Taking charge, Transgender
Tagged coming out, dressing up, female, feminine, gender, girl, memory, transgender, transition, woman, women
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So What’s Next on My Near Empty Plate?
After two and a half years where the main driving force in my life was completing my physical transition, fueled by my gender dysphoria of not having my external sexual organs reflect my internal gender self identity, I have suddenly come to … Continue reading
A New Perspective on the “Nice Guy” versus the “Bad Boy”
Back when I was still pretending to be David, the man I never was, I was one of the “nice guys.” Looking back on it from a woman’s perspective today, I can see that I was so starved for affection … Continue reading
Posted in Juicier by the moment, Possibilities, Shift Happens
Tagged divine, female, feminine, sexual arousal, transition, woman, women
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A Curious Conundrum
It is interesting to me that when I was still trying to pretend to be a “straight” guy, even though I was ally to the GLBT communities, I still was abhorrent to watching or even imagining men kissing or otherwise … Continue reading
The home stretch
For the last couple of days I haven’t gotten much sleep. A year ago on this weekend after Thanksgiving is when I began my transition with an announcement to my Embodydance community that I no longer could live my life … Continue reading
Posted in Possibilities, Shift Happens, Sisterhood, Uncategorized
Tagged coming out, sisterhood, vagina, woman
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To dream and dance my joy
It’s now been a little over a month since my beloved wife and mother of our son made her transition to the realm of the Great Mystery, one quite different from the one on which I have embarked. I have … Continue reading
Posted in Possibilities
Tagged female, hormonal therapy, lesbian, liposuction, transgender, transition, woman
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When someone hands you a gift, just say “Thank You!”
Yesterday’s little drama brought up once more a painful old issue around self sabotage. The way I viewed these freak accidents in my past life as David was that they were wake-up calls to get me to see something that … Continue reading
A Spy in the Enemy Camp 