My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa
When referring to December of 2024 like this in my previous post: For those on Mastodon, do you recall me just sort of disappearing for several weeks of that month? …some readers were… confused? Apparently, they somehow thought I had suddenly returned to Mastodon when that post was published two weeks ago. They thought that [ ]
But thanks for asking. My post here should be a celebration of my coming out publicly. On Mastodon, no less. Two years ago today. Yay! I m still so surprised at and so grateful for the positive reaction I received there. Those are good people. But this is more than an anniversary party. It s a vulgar [ ]
This isn t about the movie. And it s neither romantic nor a comedy. If only. Exactly one week after admitting to myself that I m transgender, I worked up the courage to tell someone else. I came out to my wife on February 2, 2023. Yes, on Groundhog Day. For all the joy in finally being my [ ]
I knew about Mastodon in a vague way a year ago. But it wasn t until Space Karen laid off half the staff at Twitter on November 3, 2022 when we all realized that the blue bird was indeed circling the drain that I got serious about riding the pachyderm. I created my first account on the Fediverse [ ]
This morning I had to renew my driver s license at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, a problematic task because I haven t legally changed my name or gender yet. This is not because I haven t wanted to change those for months, but I m going through a divorce. And my lawyer told me to wait while [ ]
Originally published elsewhere on Thursday, April 10, 2014. I have no plans to watch that new movie about Steve Jobs. As I have no plans to read Walter Isaacson s biography of him. It s not because I think those efforts are somehow not worthy of his memory. It s just that I have my own recollections of [ ]
On the Mastodon social network, a post or comment is whimsically called a toot, and re-posting or re-blogging them is boosting. I m known there for boosting toots. In fact, that s why a lot of people follow me. They want a curated feed. And I provide it for them. For free. My business plan needs more [ ]
You might have noticed this website is published using WordPress. Or maybe you didn t. In the end, do you really care? I ve used WordPress in the past for at least two other blogs. But a static site generator the last time I wreaked havoc on the Internet. So, why go back to WordPress now? Well, [ ]
On the morning of Juneteenth, I published a Sorry, we re closed post on my old blog, shutting the doors on the website forever. My intent was to make a clean and obvious break between that blog and this one. Even though I doubted anyone would actually read it or even make that connection. I was [ ]
Revealing my gender identity on Mastodon turned out to be quite the event. I really should have saved the title My coming out party for this post. On Thursday morning last week, I began migrating my old Mastodon account to a new server with a new username. When that process completed, I published a series [ ]