A lively gal finding herself in San Francisco.

I was born and raised in St Louis, was married for 31.5 years to a wonderful woman who I still count as one of my best friends. We bore two delightful children, Cait and Mel who have grown into amazing adults. After 52.5 years of living in Missouri, I moved to San Francisco, California in 2022.

I’ve been a nerd and an artist my whole life. Nerding won out to drive my career as a software engineer and now a software engineering manager. Arting was how I applied my craft. These days I am finding that I need to unleash my artistic side and that I am finding success as a servant leader practicing radical candor. My nerdistic side was in repose for a minute, but is awakening to new challenges.

Through all of this I identified as a cis man until I was 50.5. I then came out as a trans woman. Since May of 2020 I’ve found myself increasingly content and then happy. I’d never been happy before this.