I’m exhausted and stressed.  Dishwasher is acting up again; AC out on my car; other stuff hanging over my head; and just finished a stack of discovery for one of my side gigs (because I can’t stand to have it sitting there unfinished once I start it). I realize these are all minor annoyances and…

Despite promises of good health (because we all “know” that weight loss cures everything), Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) survivors are at risk of a plethora of health issues: Gastric surgery is associated with numerous nutritional disorders, including pernicious anemia, iron deficiency anemia, bone mineral disease, postvagotomy syndrome, early and late dumping syndromes, hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, malnutrition, malabsorption, and…

For the longest time, Easter was my favorite holiday.  Even when you don’t believe in God, Easter is so hopeful.  To me, it’s all about Spring and new life – and candy. Easter has so many wonderful things – you get new clothes (I have always been about the clothes); the music is wonderful and…

I was thinking back to TV when I was (much) younger.  The shows were all, basically, stand alone plots.  Yes, there were recurring characters, but the issues were all resolved in the half hour or hour or two hours (remember those “Mystery Movies”?) that was allotted to them. Now it seems all the shows require,…

No.  Not The Crown.  No.  Not The Queen’s Gambit. The Equalizer. Starring the one and only Queen Latifah. I have only seen an episode or two of the original TV show The Equalizer (1985-1989); but I liked what I saw. I never saw the Denzel Washington reboot film.  Now I’m watching the new TV version…

I was typing away on my computer and for some reason, my fat old lady brain told me that when I say I’m, “up to my tits” in something – the bar has dropped considerably. As my Grandma Harris, used to say, “Who thinks of these things?” Apparently, that would be me.

Trolling Pinterest for fat art, I run across Happy Beppy dolls/figures. They are delightful, fat round people.  So many different styles, but only one shape – ROUND.  Really, really round. So why are Happy Beppies so diverse?  Because they are made by all kinds of people!  Happy Beppy is a business in the Netherlands that…

My friends and family always told me that they wrote my address in their address books in pencil. And for good reason.  Let’s see. First home, was on Essex Street in Essexville, where I lived with my sister, Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad got divorced and my maternal grandfather died.  Mom, me and my…

The State of California has put Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente in charge of COVID vaccine allocation. Before that, each County was in charge of their own vaccination rollout.  Santa Clara County (where I live) was (and still is) doing a great job.  A much better job than, let’s say, Kaiser (my HMO).  I, along…

I know lots of people in theater.  Some are very dramatic (in real life) and some are not.  In my personal life, my mood swings can be kind of epic.  (Just ask my dear husband.) Luckily, thanks to some excellent drugs (better living through chemistry), they are not so close together anymore. And yet, I…