Staci Hunter over at Femulate decided I’m a beautiful blogger. Thank you, Staci! It’s a nice way to start the year, and I do have a scintillating personality, at least.

(Is “femulate” not one of the best names for a blog ever?!)

I do have important responsibilities that come with this honor.

1. thank the person who chose you.
2. link to her site.
3. put award on blog.
4. enumerate 7 interesting things about myself.
5. chose 7 other people to be Beautiful Bloggers.

So those seven interesting things:

1. I have been hugged by both Andy Patridge of XTC and Marc Almond of Soft Cell.
2. I published my first piece of writing – a poem about a kite – when I was in grade school. It was some national children’s arts thing.
3. I am, in my heart, a fiction writer, even though I have not yet published fiction in any major venue.
4. I have made my own holiday cards for the past 20 years, only ever missing 2008.
5. My first boyfriend was named Jason. Also, my last.
6. I was volunteer staff at the big “comeback” Earth Day of 1989 in Central Park.
7. I have been asked more than once if I do phone sex. (I don’t.)

So now, the seven people whom I’ve chosen:

1. Mercedes Allen of Dented Blue Mercedes
2. Kate Bornstein of Kate Bornstein-ness
3. Charlie Vazquez of Latino Musings on Literature (“beautiful” is not a gender-specific term, peeps)
4. Monica Roberts of TransGriot
5. Caprice Bellefleur’s Glob
6. Mattilda of Nobody Passes
7. Jillian Weiss of Transgender Workplace Diversity

So thank you again, Staci, and thanks to all of these bloggers for writing so regularly, and about such interesting things, and for being beautiful while doing so.