While my dear husband and I were on vacation my laptop died.  Not even a year old and it died.  Dead.  Deceased.  Shuffled off it’s mortal coil.  An ex-laptop. I got home, looked up the purchase info and, sure as shit, I had bought the extended coverage on the laptop (because, sometimes (and I can’t…

I believe that this one is pulled totally from my own fat old lady brain. At some point in my misspent youth, I started saying: “And my ass chews crackers too.” The general meaning of this is akin to “Pull the other one, it’s got bells on it.”  Or simply, “Yeah.  Right.” I said this…

See what I did there? Sorry (not sorry).  Couldn’t resist. Anyhow, most folks in the theater have rules about what they will and will not eat or drink before or during a performance.  Singers, imho, have the most rules.  Let’s see – you can’t eat or drink anything that is going to make you burp. …

I’m sorry this is so long, and while it could do with a good edit, it’s just not happening. I’m one tired fat old lady. I am a creature of habit.  (Not a nun’s habit, despite my tenure with the Hot Cross Nuns – those days are behind me.)  Habit as in routines. I do…

I have often (okay, a few times) discussed my mother’s lack of culinary skills. Well, I had a hankering for banana cake.  (What is it with me and bananas lately?  First banana bread, now this?) So I look in my database for dessert recipes and there is one “Mom’s Banana Cake”.  Hmmmm.  I don’t remember…

I know I’m a fat old lady; but now I feel like I am officially a fat OLD lady. I have an old people injury on my arm. You know what an old people injury is.  It’s that bruise-y, ripped skin-y injury that you can’t quite figure out how it happened; and old people tend…

That’s right!  I actually have some theater to discuss this Theater Tuesday!  Can you believe it? I can’t.  But it’s true.  This past Sunday I went to the Foothill College production of The Book of Will.  It was my first venture into a theater since the pandemic struck.  I was very happy to note that…

Well, they’re not knee knockers – yet! And the my bras, try as they might, are no longer up to the task of hoisting my hefty bosom.  I can’t blame my bras, they have put in many years of hard (sweaty) thankless work.  Looking in my bra drawer, I would not be surprised if someone…

One of the biggest problem fat people have to contend with is dealing with healthcare and healthcare professionals. The amount of anti-fat bias among medical professionals is well documented; and it has a direct impact on the health of fat people.  Also of concern is medical equipment that cannot accommodate fat bodies and things like…

You know how everyone tells you that you’ll laugh about it later? Well, not always. Even when the situation was objectively kind of hilarious. You know how funny it is when someone is holding onto the dock and their boat is pulled away and the person holding on gets dragged overboard? Hilarious – right? Not…