And now, after years of being my beauty-break, the thing I didn’t have to make better, the protein matter that I dyed iridescent shades of eggplant for fun, chopped into sassy bobs, twisted into lame dreadlocks; chunks of hair wadded together with lanolin, has, over time, like every other genetic luck of the draw, changed. In a [...]
June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012: NPR has Sandusky’s trial analysis on every a.m. talk show. According to an expert on men in prison, there is a huge number of men clogging the penal system who have histories of sexual abuse. All those men, untreated for sexual abuse. All those men with huge violent wounds. And while I [...]
May 21, 2012
I didn’t forget. I just didn’t go back. I went twice. Once for the initial shock and the following week for the glory of lost pounds. Then I got busy writing, walking my dog, doing the laundry and micromanaging the lives of my children. I’m busy, busy, busy. Oh, and then I work a little [...]
May 9, 2012
The afternoon before the prom there was a flutter of activity. I sensed the excitement from my office, knowing the prom was the source, I dug harder into my work. I would not be corrupted. Right about then, my daughter burst in, she’d accompanied an older girlfriend to a tanning salon! A tanning salon?!? [...]
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 17, 2012
Kate Upton, the model above, created herself using social media. She was able to package and market herself from the comfort of her home. Teenagers have the tools to advertise. She put up a sign and the property sold. She’s beautiful, she’s young (nineteen), she’s more naked than not… the airbrushed girl above, is a [...]
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 18, 2012
Make her look how a real girl should? Hmmm. In a slight gain in the war against sending out unrealistic body type messages to young girls, the site Doll Divine offers a program called Princess Makers that allows the user to choose two body types: uber skinny and slightly more curvaceous (yet, still skinny and [...]
January 12, 2012
Mesmerizing, no? Twenty years ago the average runway model weighed 8% less than the average woman. Today she weighs 23% less. The photo below is from a photo shoot in the January issue of Plus Size Model. The larger woman is a plus sized model. The smaller woman is a runway model. (Image: Plus Model Magazine)
July 22, 2011
Jezebel ran a piece called, “Pregnant and Pulling a Deuce Because I Can.” Apparently, it’s a real thing. It means breaking two hundred pounds during pregnancy. Seventeen years ago when I was pregnant for the first time, nobody joked about weight gain. And there were few bikini-clad- mommas to-be at the beach. I was out there. But [...]
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