Red and white striped tops somehow mean “summer” to me. I only have one red and white striped top.  I find that red and white striped tops in fat old lady sizes are not easy to find.  Perhaps because many retailers believe that horizontal stripes of any color should be eschewed by fat people. Fuck…

L-R Sister Flagrante Delicto (Laura Sheriff); Reverand Mother Arletta Fahrt (Linda Dodson, R.I.P.); Sister Tittilus Buttox (Terri Cotter Weitze); Sister Clitteruptus (Sue Abitanta); and Sister Dietus Perpetua (Kathy McGinty Radocaj) Singing at the MCCV (Metropolitan Community Church of the Valley – Burbank, California)

French illustrator and animator Aurore Damant’s characters are charming, sometimes funny and, as in the real world, come in all sizes. If you go to her Tumblr page (https://auroredamant.tumblr.com/) and scroll down, you’ll find examples of her illustrations related to stories.  The text is in French, but the illustrated stories are easy to follow and…

I have a ton of craft supplies for various crafts that I used to do and keep thinking one day will do again. Who am I kidding? I doubt I have the eyesight or hand coordination to do things like hand bead weaving anymore.  I tell myself I keep all those beads because I can…

Okay, maybe not kill but definitely make me uncomfortable. I have had two bizarre pill incidents in one week and I am hoping and praying (to the God I don’t believe in) that this is not one of those things that comes in threes. First.  Stuck in Detroit overnight because of my flight problems (read…

Most theater people are “night owls”. We have to be.  We are performing in shows that usually finish up around 11 pm or later; after which we have to wipe the makeup off, hang up our costumes, get dressed, pack up our personal items and head home – or head out for some breakfast or…

Okay.  Here’s the deal.  I suffer from chronic depression and anxiety (not to mention intermittent crabbiness, grouchiness and just plain old bitchiness).  I was recently been transferred from Kaiser’s adult psychiatry department to its geriatric psychiatry department. The main difference in the departments is with adult psychiatry you see or talk with a psychiatrist.  In…

One of the Hot Cross Nuns’ (L to R – Sr. Flagrante Dilecto (Laura Sheriff), Rev. Mother Arletta Fahrt (Linda Dodson (R.I.P.)), Sr. Tittilus Buttox (Terri Cotter Weitze), Sr. Clitteruptus (Sue Abitanta), and Sr. Dietus Perpetua (Kathy McGinty Radocaj)) favorites.

This is a long one folks. Flying while fat can be fraught with it’s own set of problems.  Add on flying while old and it’s a whole new ballgame.  Then you can add on flying during a pandemic. And the fun just never starts. The large city airports are just that – large. They are…

The one good thing I can say about my mother marrying our stepfather Charlie is that he brought into our lives our cousins, Alice and Marilyn. The four of us spent a lot of time together growing up.  A lot of that time was unsupervised and we had an inordinate amount of fun. Linda is…