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Fourteenth column
Today my fourteenth column was broadcast by Gendertalk.You can listen to it here.A transcript of the text is below. The Ugly DucklingWhen I was a child, I often felt very lonely and unhappy. I felt I was somehow different from the other children. That was why they often teased me and wouldn’t let me play [...]
Yves Rocher
Today I took another little hurdle. Just like Hunkemöller’s Yves Rocher’s is another shop I have always been afraid to enter. But I had nearly run out of daytime cream, so I took the jump and went in!Of course there was nothing to fear. The saleslady was very kind and gave me good advice. Within [...]
Forever without sex
Last week we had another group session at Humanitas. So once again I had to rise early, go to work as soon as possible and after work proceed to Rotterdam at once. On the way there I made a stop at the self-service gas station and at the supermarket. But still I arrived much too [...]
Thirteenth Column
I just had to react to the horrible lies conservatives in the USA have been spreading about the Dutch medical practices in the Netherlands. So I devoted my column to this.The program can be found in the Gendertalk archive, but if you want to hear just the column you can find it here.A full transcript [...]
Archie and Beverly
Today I finally listened to Gendertalk #508. My column “All in the Family” was indeed broadcast and the host, Ethan St. Pierre, liked it very much. (Nancy, the normal host of the program was in Austin, TX to receive an award for her work for the transgendered community.) The text of this column is also [...]
Make-up
This month there was a make-up workshop on the afternoon before the T&T-evening.; Many nice pictures have been made this afternoon, but we have also made an agreement that we won’t out each other by posting pictures on the Internet. It is such a pity many people are scared to admit to the outside world [...]
Answering Machine
I few weeks ago I programmed our answering machine with a new spoken text. Of course I was using my very best female voice.Yesterday a friend of ours called to congratulate me, but at first she thought she had dialed the wrong connection: “I didn’t recognize your voice; I heard a woman’s voice I didn’t [...]
Birthday
Yes, it was my birthday yet again! I hardly thought about it until a few days in advance. I won’t be throwing a party this year. But it is difficult to let it pass without doing anything about it…So Julia and I went out for dinner again, together with a close friend of ours. This [...]
Twelfth Column
IF everything has worked out, my twelfth column has been broadcast tonight. I didn’t listen to it myself, I was far too sleepy. You can find the complete program in the Gendertalk archive.Or you can find just my column at:http://eveliensnel.nl/audio/ALL35.mp3A full transcript of the text is below: All in the Family Do you remember the [...]