I’m in the process of editing the videos of the dates and trying to give a good sense of the whole experience of being another person.  I will post something soon.  It has taken me a little longer than I expected to recooperate from “being” someone else for 2 months.  I feel culture shocked, as if I’ve been to […]

This is my last day as Delia and I’m feeling elated to be done and a little sad.  I’m going to miss her.
It’s been 2 months of being Delia every day, experiencing life from a different viewpoint.  Life is easier for Delia for a number of reasons.  She […]

 
The first time I remember meeting the man who would become my first love was freshman orientation.  I remember walking over to Western with a guy and girl I’d just met to see the comedian George Carlin.  The girl reminded me of my childhood best friend and I immediately liked her.  He was tall […]

I tried to track down my best friend from college.  She didn’t respond.  I don’t know if my messages went to spam or if she didn’t want to be part of this.  We left on bad terms.  Twice I dated men she’d really liked.The specifics of the circumstances weren’t as bad as that makes it […]

I fell for you the moment I first saw you.  It was at a dorm party during the first month of college.  Everything about your face, your body, your long hair, your easy laugh, your crazy energy, your huge smile, was incredibly appealing.  I was totally smitten.
I didn’t have the courage to […]

I don’t remember the specific time or place, but I remember being asked out by a guy friend of mine in seventh grade.  I liked him.  He was my friend.  When we were younger, we used to go fishing together or ride our bikes around town.  It was easy and fun hanging out with […]

Talked to his mom.  We had a nice chat, but she couldn’t give me contact information for him.  Oh well.

Wasn’t it something like I was going with him and then he asked if it was all right if he asked you out?
He was so in love with you.  You were just like, “No.”
He asked you out in 7th grade, and it was a total love thing for him all through school.  If you had […]

My seventh week as Delia: I’m very comfortable being Delia now.  I don’t feel like it is an act most of the time.  I don’t have to think about speaking or moving like her.  It all comes naturally.  It’s like learning to drive a car: at first it seems an impossible task […]

 
Everything changed in our lives when my mom and stepdad married.  It made me nervous to have a new person be part of our family. I remember warning my mom against getting involved with him.  He was a big, one-legged guy who worked on motorcycles.  She seemed fragile and unpredictable.  I felt it was my […]