Confessions of a Crap Eater #2: 7-11 Chili Dogs

This wasn’t supposed to be my life. Remember that part in “Once In A Lifetime” by Talking Heads where David Byrne starts yelling about how this is not his beautiful house? And this is not his beautiful wife? Yeah… I had some trouble recently. Kinda with everything. Definitely wrestled a lot with this question: “Why do I feel like my life is completely out of my control?” I thought I’d had my midlife crisis at 39 when I suddenly couldn’t stop myself from undergoing a complete gender transition. By the time I was 42 I was married and happy, living in a small house in the ring of suburbs closest to the city (where we could afford to live), and struggling to form some sort of writing career for myself as a journalist and editor for a small independent publication. That’s the last time y’all heard from me. What’s happened inbetween was really intense and complex and felt like the whole world while I was living through it, but that’s a tale as old as time once you step back from it, and the…

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