First Entry: An Introduction to Monica and The Monicle

I'm Monica Talbot, a 'sometimes woman', or one who often crosses gender lines in my mind and body.  This blog is a way to express myself in more than just pictures or quick captions on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, etc that tgirls like me often use to reach out to other tgirls and admirers.  This blog is also a way for me to discuss some of my thoughts about topics that fascinate me, like cross dressing, feminization, and transgender and transsexual issues.  It will be more cerebral than sexual, but I'll discuss anything that comes to my mind, or is posed to me by a thoughtful reader.

As I mature, I find myself more and more engrossed with experiencing my feminine side.  Yet I never thought of myself as a true transgender person, and probably never will.  Simply put, I live most of my life, and all of the public life, as a guy, and I have a good time doing that.  But I've become increasingly curious about what I would be like, look like, and act like if I had been born XX rather than XY.  More on that later.

I will not reveal too much about myself, where I live, how old I am, what I do for a living, or anything about those closest to me.  This is out of intense privacy concerns, and the fear of destroying or at least harming so many important relationships in my life.  But I will try to be open about my thoughts, desires, fears, and questions surrounding all this.

I chose the name of this blog for a reason.  The Monicle is a blend of my name Monica, and a Chronicle to record my thoughts and impressions.  It's also a twist the the word 'Monocle', being a single lens worn to improve sight in one eye.  In this regard, I always have one eye focused on my male side, and the other eye on my female side.  The Monicle helps me bring my female side into more focus.

Enough of the preliminary info.  Here's what I look like as Monica.  I took this shot about a month ago, wearing a really gorgeous velvet body con dress that I bought on eBay.  It's a picture I'm proud of, because I think it shows the kind of woman I would want to be if I was female.