so i don't claim to be an angel. i do claim that i have something very much like angels helping me on this journey. it is just the only explanation that i think works when i consider all the blessings that come my way. first and foremost is peace of mind. this is a relative term as i have been bipolar for the entirety of my life and have been riddled with chemical swings and mood swings since as long as i can remember. and just to have that rocking motion in my moods be quelled and have the opportunity to become accustomed to its quiet has made my life a completely different experience. so you know if i can somehow, in my journey, help someone else feel this amazing sense of decompression that i have experienced, then i will be doubly blessed. i believe that giving up self-medication is the toughest thing i have had to do. i don't really know what got me to that point of surrendering the only thing i trusted to quiet my mood swings. probably it was the consequences of my own prescription results. when it is said "surrender to win", i really understand. i had to surrender my prescription pad in order to get well. or even feel better. and i do. and it's a blessing. get off the merry-go-round. it really works. it takes time, but it really works.
hello kitty.... can you tell me if there are angels ????
and from richard kearns at http://www.aidswrite.org/
Old Mike, new Christine
By Mike Penner, Times Staff Writer
April 26, 2007
During my 23 years with The Times’ sports department, I have held a wide variety of roles and titles. Tennis writer. Angels beat reporter. Olympics writer. Essayist. Sports media critic. NFL columnist. Recent keeper of the Morning Briefing flame.
Today I leave for a few weeks’ vacation, and when I return, I will come back in yet another incarnation.
As Christine.
I am a transsexual sportswriter. It has taken more than 40 years, a million tears and hundreds of hours of soul-wrenching therapy for me to work up the courage to type those words. I realize many readers and colleagues and friends will be shocked to read them.
A writer’s transformation makes the personal public
Mike Penner’s account of becoming Christine Daniels liberates the columnist and strikes a chord with readers.
By James Rainey, Times Staff Writer
April 27, 2007
The security guard in the lobby of the Los Angeles Times couldn’t help but ask the question. When he looked at the computer in front of him earlier this week, he saw the picture of a strapping blond man. The screen identified the employee: “Michael Penner, Editorial.”
But the person flashing the ID was a tall woman, with long, strawberry blond hair. “Ma’am, whose card are you using?” the guard asked. The subject moved closer to answer quietly: “I’m Mike Penner and I’m a transitioning transsexual.”
With that, security waved Penner into the newspaper where he has worked for 23 years, one of many hurdles the veteran sportswriter will be crossing in the coming weeks as he transforms into Christine Daniels.
Penner, 49, shocked many readers, fellow journalists and sports fans with a column in Thursday morning’s Times Sports section that told the world of his decision to switch genders.
The revelation drew an enormous response — with the highly personal 823-word essay becoming, by mid-evening, one of the most heavily viewed stories on latimes.com in the last year, with about half a million page views.
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There's something for the sports guys chew on!
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