Tag: Firsts

In June 2020, we started in Veevas’ Consultant Development Program (CDP) as Associate Consultants in their Barcelona office. We wanted to share with readers our amazing experience during the first couple of months at Veeva: from onboarding to our first project. June 15, 2020: This was ...

My sister’s screams rattled the room. Mom had frozen her ear lobes with ice, but what freaked out the child was the crackling of cartilage as the sterilized needle pierced her ears. My sister was two. I was six. My tears were not due to her pain. I was so jealous I wanted to explode. Mama k...

My former therapist figured out I was trans before I did, I think. She asked me pointblank back in 2014 if I would cut off my breasts if I could. I didn’t figure out I was trans until 2021, though. I grew up in rural, fundamentalist Christendom, and I didn’t even learn the word &ld...

Ithought I was pretty well-versed on LGBTQ+ matters. I had worked at an AIDS resource center that branched off into our local LGBT Life Center. I had friends from all over the rainbow spectrum. So when my son came to me and came out, I felt pretty self-assured that I would get this right (i...

Today we’re nearing the end of the period we call prehistory on this, our long, semi-comprehensive slog through the origins and development of modern science. Prehistory is that million-plus-year age of human experience, inclusive of pre-humans (our genetic ancestors who were not of the H...