On Saturday, I finally told my son J. about my transition.
He’s five. I had just supervised his life-jacketed form flying off the dock at my family’s summer place—lucky us, I know—and now he was warming up in the sun on top of the boathouse. I had refused to swim since the thought of me in [...]

One of my better outings last week was a trip to the Prada outlet in Montevarchi (which had more than Prada, but nothing not nice), near where we were staying for the wedding.
The last time I was at this particular store–three years ago or so–I was there as a straight man, on my honeymoon with [...]

I’ve been in Italy all week, staying at a really fabulous villa atop a Tuscan hillside. We’re here for the wedding of my friends D. and A.
Italy is great, just like it was the last time I was here. The food is nice. The buildings artfully terraced across the hilly landscape are breathtaking. Everything has [...]