I am going to start filtering some of my more private musings. Since blogger does not have a tool for that, you will need to visit my Live Journal and ask to be friended there. I will continue to post Daily Gratitude and other subjects here. There is also a FAQ for my Journal at the same link.
| Friday, December 13, 2002 @ 16:56 I'm working on a piece on TGs for the "Sexuality & Gender" section of this site. I hope to finish it later today or tomorrow. At the moment, though, my mind is filled with thoughts of childlessness. I made a conscious choice a long time ago not to have children. My boi had made that same choice. That was recently shaken by the hospitalization and death of her mother, but it remains steady in each of us. I'm currently reading Madelyn Cain's The Childless Revolution: What it Means to Be Childless Today. This book came out last year, but I didn't get around to reading it until now. Most of the book is devoted to those who are "Childless by Chance" or "Childless by Happenstance" and very little to those who are "Childfree by Choice" -- the category in which we fit. Still, it's giving me a sense of community I lacked and some information on support and further information I can research. I still have qualms about the fact that I won't have any children to take care of my estate when I'm gone and no one to leave a legacy of my creative endeavors. Worst still is the idea that if I proceed my boi in death, there won't be someone to help her through it the way she is helping her father cope with the finances and loneliness. If she dies first, who will be left to cremate and mourn me? ....but qualms do not change my resolve to remain childfree.
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