I first heard Jordan Davis’ Next Thing You Know a few months after meeting my fiancée.  We were not engaged at the time, but certainly moving too fast.  We met in September, and by December, Nikki was sleeping at my place most nights.  She’d complained about the sorry state of my mattress two months in;…

The first time I realized I was a man I burst into tears.  I was in a Zoom therapy session and saw my face, just a few months on testosterone, and recognized myself in it for the first time.  I couldn’t be a man though. Non-binary I could reconcile with, but a MAN?  Through all…