Sail! All that is good to read. I better go follow you on Twitter. I don't regularly check it, but now and then I pop in and it's nice to see what people I know are saying...[ETA ha! I already follow you! Now maybe I'll be able to connect your twitter handle with your b.org name, though]

Hi, -t! Yeah, it doesn't help that I changed my twitter handle about a year ago. And will probably do so when Yuzu finally lands a 4A. Assuming he is the first person to ratify it in competition.

Sail! So good to see you here. Lovely kiddo updates. Congrats on overcoming communication challenges! May you both make up for lost time.

Hello, everyone! I feel like I keep up with a lot of Buffistas on Twitter and FB, but I've been thinking of coming back here of late. So when I saw the delurking thread announced on FB, I decided today should be the day.

Let's see, what's going on in my world...I've been in the same job as a compliance analyst in a UW central office for 8 years now. I enjoy the work and my coworkers, so I'm planning to stay for another few years at least, while I figure out whether I want to focus the next 20-30 years of life on writing, something with politics/activism, some kind of lay or ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church, or a little bit of all three.

I haven't been writing as much of late--I gave myself a sabbatical in 2015-16 that ran headlong into the 2016 election and turned into writer's block. But I'm working on an obscure-fandom fic (in Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife 'verse), and have vowed to post at least a couple chapters by the end of 2019.

In family news, Dylan and I recently celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. The child formerly known as Annabel is now a 15-year-old trans boy named Alex who's a sophomore at pretty much the quirkiest small alternative high school in the Seattle Public School system and is thriving there. We're still adjusting to the new name and new pronouns, and we're still figuring out how and when to communicate the changes to our conservative extended families, but needless to say we support him fully. It's been remarkable to see his new confidence and happiness in the last few month since fully claiming his identity. (For the past several years, he'd been identifying as NB and going by his initials.)

So, that's the news. I've missed this place, so I'll probably be around a lot more in the future.

Hi guys! Big doings! And congrats to Alex.

Good for Alex! Sounds like he's got the best environments and people around him to help him grow. It sounds like you have some exciting goals for yourself, too!

It's so nice to see everybody! That's awesome for Alex, Susan, and go Sail with the girlfriend!

I'd forgotten how much I like this annual thing we do.

Good to hear from dear friends!

Well done, Sail! I wish you much nookie.

Exciting news about Alex, Susan. Several of my college and HS friends have kids who are at various stages of gender fluidity, and I think that is true of a few Buffistae kids as well.

Hi Susan! I've seen bits and pieces of your news in various of the social places but it's really nice to get a big chunk of update all one place.

Sounds like he's got the best environments and people around him to help him grow.

I'm so, so glad to be in a city like Seattle that's about as safe and welcoming as a place can be for a young trans kid.

Such good news about your kids and the new GF, Sail!

Incidentally, I'm on Twitter under my pen name, @susannafraser -- lately I retweet a lot of politics and occasionally talk about books and various random interests.

waves at everyone