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Hey! Glad to see you found your way into the blogs. Happy blogging! :)

Ben, thank you for the uplifting post. I, too, have mixed feelings about Walmart on many levels, but here they stepped up to the plate! Know you will be an excellent representative of Walmart, and with your strong work ethic, you are going to be a valued employee. Hope you may want to become part of the management team in the future!

:) I have one of my mom's pictures from when I had short hair as a child.She's holding me. I like keeping the pictures she shares with me. and recipes. I still like to cook and all that. Still the same person, just better at expressing myself. I think people focus so much on the outer change they don't realize that the person who is transitioning is becoming a better more honest and beautiful person and the physical part of transitioning is just and actualization of that process.

"It came as a shock to me the amount of things people don’t realize about someone else’s lifestyle. My mom assumed that since I’m now a man I don’t care what I look like as long as I look like a man. She’s wrong. She thought because I’m a man I’d want to go out and ride dirt bikes instead of decorate cakes. She’s wrong." This reminded me of shortly after coming out to my mum, she lamented that now she had no one to whom to pass down her things, because men wouldn't want those things. I guess it never occurred to her that most any child will treasure nearly anything a parent leaves to them simply because it was something that belonged to their parent - male or female quite often doesn't matter. Of course I don't want her favourite big floppy Red Hat Society hat, or her entire collection of stuffed bears...but a figurine that she treasured, or some special dish, maybe one tiny bear... why wouldn't a guy wanna keep something like that just to say, "this was my momma's?" I didn't say anything. I just left it at that. I think way too many people are under the mistaken impression that most men do not hold dear the belongings of loved ones.