Suddenly, I'm Not Half The Man I Used To Be..... There's A Woman Looking Back At Me...
Someone commented on a recent post asking whimsically if I was "full time" (as my true self, as a female), likely as a result of all my recent posts in the past year of seeming to just blend in within the greater world as female. Well, that was an interesting comment because something interesting happened today. J and I were taking a hike in the woods around Squam Lake (actually better known as the setting for the movie "On Golden Pond"). Anyway, towards the end of our multi-mile hike, we passed an older gentleman who stopped us as we passed and said, "I recognize you!" He looked straight at Joanne when he said it. After a brief reintroduction, we both realized that this was the gentleman who ran the coffee shop up at the Waterville Valley Town Village Shops. We had come to know him well over the years and had chatted extensively, but our last encounter with him was about 3 years prior. He looked right at Joanne and spoke to her but...