Western New York

• running barefoot in the grass & dandelions with trees all around
• Rochester Lilac Festival
• weekends spent at various lakes
• being in nature as often as possible so my imagination would blossom

Kentucky

• golden afternoons playing basketball
• always thinking that I was supposed to have been born a boy
• block parties
• love & obsession for storms grew out of fear
• learning my "sister" was actually my mother & that Ma & Dad were my grandparents

Virginia

• extreme isolation as a caretaker with no schooling
• educating myself so I got a GED as valedictorian
• trips to Virginia Beach & falling in love with the Atlantic Ocean
• Myrtle Beach
• working at the auto auction
• getting wrapped up with & abused by a local preacher's family
• winning various creative contests & having my work featured in magazines

Ontario

• discovering how to be a person
• beautiful nerdy friends
• endless house parties
• Toronto exploration
• long weekends spent at friends' family cottages
• Saturday adventures
• Bruce Peninsula exploration
• container gardening
• comic cons & cosplaying with friends
• cat fostering/volunteering
• parents passing
• truly beginning my relationship with my actual mother
• something I won't mention
• Switzerland & London trip
• end of my first marriage
• learning how to start over again & be myself

England

• drunken Prosecco nights dancing at the gay clubs
• London exploration
• local comic cons & makers markets
• trips to the Netherlands, Spain and Morocco
• learning how to be a better person
• beloved city life

England after 40

• learning how to be happier here
• becoming independent