I am a project management professional in the greater Philadelphia area. I enjoy travel, domestic arts, reading and gardening. I am an active member of several ladies groups. I am a fan of 1970s & 80s hard rock, do not own a cell phone, and still have my high school football varsity letterman's jacket in my closet.
Christy Lewis writes about the joys of femininity. As with most of us on TGForum she finds joy in a pretty dress, visits to her hair stylist’s, and other feminine pursuits. And it may have all gotten started when she was 6-years-old and asked her mother to paint her nails just like her sister’s. Who’s to say?
Christy Lewis feels as if she has been enclosed in a chrysalis, slowly transforming into the beautiful butterfly she was meant to be, and now she has broken through the confining wall. Now she’s living her life as she always wanted, being “out” to all her friends and coworkers.
Christy Lewis takes a look at history in this blog. It’s all because one day she was wondering what it would be like to be a princess. And then she said, why stop there? How would it be to wear an imperial crown as Empress Christy the First? We are certain her rule would be both wise and just. And she would look fabulous in those beautiful royal gowns.
Christy Lewis finds similarities between her life and Dr. Richard Kimble in The Fugitive. While discovery and exposure as a trans person wouldn’t have landed her on death row there were countless bad things that could happen if anyone discovered her secret personae. The Fugitive ran for several years and eventually there was a finale in which the real killer was found and Dr. Kimble was able to live his normal life. Christy set herself free and now feels that she is living her normal life.
Christy Lewis wonders today about how things would have turned out in her life if just one or two things had been different. WIth just one small alteration her life would have been a lot different. She would have been born a cisgender female. But on the other hand, what about the lessons learned and skills practiced in her current life as a trans woman? Read on for her conclusion.
Early spring greetings to TGForum readers! The snow is clearing, the days are getting longer, the weather is warming up, and the trees and shrubs are budding — unmistakable signs of a long-awaited spring. For those of us who love to garden and landscape, it’s finally time to prepare and assemble this year’s annuals, perennials, […]
Christy Lewis fondly recalls the days of big hair, high heeled shoes and bold makeup. Is she remembering her formative years dressing up as a lady? No. She’s remembering the glam rockers, hair bands, and other musicians whose stage image crossed the gender border into traditionally feminine looks. Rock on. . . We mean read on!
Christy Lewis writes about what happiness means to her. In the old days a good rock concert could make her happy. Now she has other things that make her glow with happiness. She outlines a few of them in The View From Christy’s World.
Christy Lewis is preparing for the holiday and she has tip to make your Christmas special. From the gifts to the tree and options for nail art that salutes the season, Christy has a tip for every thing you need for a Merry Christmas.
Christy Lewis takes a look back at her personal progress during 2020. She manages to find the good things that happened for her among the negative things that dominated the nightly news. She even got to try on some wedding dresses and learned how to change her own wiper blades. Catch up with the rest of her 2020 experiences in Hindsight: 2020.
The eyes have it! Or rather the eyeglasses. Today Christy Lewis writes about how the right pair of eyeglasses can boost your femme image. Whether you choose the cats-eye frame, the wayfarer, or aviators glasses can accentuate the feminine and eradicate the masculine.
Christy Lewis came out to the people in her life and was happy she could finally go to work as herself, and do fun things as Christy. Then came March and the pandemic. The good thing about being homebound is she can wear whatever she likes. (No off the shoulder gowns for work meetings via Zoom.) The bad part is, like all of us, she would love to be moving around in the world being herself. Get more information on how staying inside as affected her in today’s blog.
Before the schools were shut down because of the pandemic our Contributor Christy Lewis went to a high school in her town to speak to the students about transgender issues. She looks at it as mentoring and she did it for an LGBTQ student group of about 30 members. In the course of telling us what she talked about she provides some mentoring to our readers on 10 good rules to follow. Read on to see what she told the LGBTQ+ students.
Our new contributor Christy is back this week with the story of how she slowly, very slowly, made a transition at work. Like many in the transgender community she used Halloween as a way to introduce herself as a feminine person in her workplace. She feels that by taking the introduction of Christy to coworkers and management she was more successful in fitting in with very little, if any, problems.
Christy Lewis’s driver’s license had a photo of her before her transition and even though she had renewed online and changed the gender marker and name the pandemic kept the photo centers from opening. That meant she had to carry the old license with the old photo along with her proof she was who she was. in June the photo centers reopened and Christy headed out to get her photo taken. She wore her mask and was prepared to stand in line. Today she tells you how the whole experience went.
