One other thing - I longed daily to be a woman. At the same time, I was depressed and had been for decades with no family, no partner, going through life alone. Previously, I'd been a concert jazz dancer, a restaurant cook, a varsity athlete. I seem to be a well-functioning man named Douglas Goetsch, a teacher who taught at Stuyvesant High School and various universities, a poet with award-winning collections, a dedicated meditation practitioner and instructor. In 2015, my guest wrote this.ĭIANA GOETSCH: (Reading) My life broke down two years ago at age 50, though it was broken all along.
