Isabella Duton’s children are the biggest mistake of her life. But before you dismiss her as a wretch, consider what your reaction would be to a father who wrote the same article. I know that I judge her differently than I would a father. I can’t believe she and I are members of the same [...]
July 31, 2012
Guest Post, by Gail Doktor How do you know when what you want is also what you need? When they’re opposites? Want can compromise you, as much as it might entertain or satisfy you. While need is essential to survival and greater quality of life. Sometimes you mistake one for the other. A craving can become a force so powerful that it [...]
June 22, 2012
My sister: Is out of date klonopin safe to take? Me: Out of date klonopin is fine to take. Do it all the time. Any time I can. As often as I can. Do it. Now. I texted my sister that very wise medical advice last night at eleven. She was about to get on [...]
March 28, 2012
Yesterday Hayley wrote about the mother with the eating disorder who got a book deal to write about her daughter’s chubbiness…Last week Andrea wrote about her mother’s pig fridge magnet and how said pig’s location, top of fridge, out of site, or smack dab in the middle of the fridge, affected her mother’s mood. A dieting mother was not a chipper [...]
March 23, 2012
Guest Post by, Andrea Chisholm I grew up with a guardian over my refrigerator door. A picture of a mud covered snorting pig with the caption, “ A moment on your lips, forever on your hips.” For years the pig made me laugh. She was so cute and seemed so happy and playful I don’t think [...]
February 1, 2012
Things I’ve learned while battling to keep the resolve in resolution: 1. Trail running involves lightly spraining your ankle over and over during a three mile run (real trail runners go for twenty and thirty miles). I run with a group and I don’t want to slow them down. So, I feel as though [...]
January 13, 2012
Shannon Drury of The Radical Housewife started a revolution. She wrote about the taboo of mental health – the skeleton in the feminist closet. For all the topics we tackle in our writing, for all the stones we turn, we leave our mental health struggles in the closet and under the rock. Why must we be [...]
January 5, 2012
There are all sorts of ways around the aging process when you’re 40 soon to be 41 as I am. You have the serious financially heavy cosmetic options: botox, restalin, laser, injections, peels, etc. Botox, me? I considered it last year when I turned 40. The valley between my eyebrows has settled in. The wrinkles [...]
December 22, 2011
I have an idea for a new show: Woman Vs Food. The Travel Channel’s Man Vs Food goes around the country being challenged to eat gross, as in large, amounts of food. If he manages to eat the food he is given a plaque or a tee-shirt or more food. The food he is challenged to eat is [...]
November 30, 2011
I had a great holiday weekend. Thanksgiving at my brother’s. Lots of kids. Even some kids I hadn’t seen in years. Jake had a sleepover. More cousins on Sunday with the family this time infiltrating my house. But holy heavens, I’m exhausted. My toddler refuses to take a nap and by 4:30 she’s hell on [...]
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