Yup. I’m done with Christmas. By that I mean, everything I need to do is done.  Presents bought and on their way and cards printed, stuffed and stamped and at the post office. What a relief. I have half a mind to just take down the tree now. But that would break Murphy’s little orange…

It’s funny that I find two sources for colorful rich fat art are Russia and Hispanic/Latin countries.  One country cold, drab and austere on the outside and the other warm and colorful on the outside.  What these countries have in common are a passionate populace, full of hospitality and a joy found in the every…

I was doing laundry today (as I do almost every Thursday) and I was folding my leggings.  And I suddenly realized that leggings are really just stretch pants! I was horrified!  I would never wear stretch pants! Would I? And then I started thinking on how the use of leggings has morphed from them being…

WTF Wednesday came on Tuesday this week. Got the dishwasher all loaded.  Close it up.  Push the buttons.  Walk away. Realize, a bit later, I’m not hearing dishwashing sounds. WTF? WTF is our Bosch dishwasher has an E24 Error Code. The E24 Error Code means your dishwasher is not draining. Well, fuck. The good news…

I don’t know why we now have these designated days like “Black Friday”, “Cyber Monday” and now “Giving Tuesday.  But I did use Giving Tuesday to remind myself of the theater groups that are struggling to hang on until the end of the pandemic.  Many of them have come up with very clever ways to…

I made my Grandpa Cotter’s Deer Camp Chili recipe the other day. Either there were a lot of guys up at that deer camp or they were astoundingly hungry. I ended up making a vat of the stuff.  (Perhaps I exaggerate a wee bit.) It’s pretty good, although it is truly Michigan chili – not…

We just made it through Thanksgiving. Hopefully most people made the decision to stay safe and stay at home rather to gather to celebrate. For many fat people, family gatherings do not feel like a celebration but rather a gamut to run, fending off health trolling, lookism, ableism, and plain old fat phobia from the…

I don’t have a lot of specific memories of Thanksgiving. We often had family over; and I always preferred the kids’ table, because that meant sitting with cousins – first the Harris boys, and later on with our dear cousins Alice and Marilyn. I know one year we didn’t have family over (I don’t remember…

First, WTF to myself – because it’s really Thursday – just barely, but still it’s Thursday because I couldn’t motivate myself to write anything until finally the guilt has built up sufficiently to force me to put fingers to computer keyboard. I had to go to the grocery store this morning.  I had to go…

You know that thing where you are onstage and you look out over the audience and there’s one person who clearly does not want to be there?  That one person with a deep set frown, arms crossed, glaring at the stage?  Or even the one person who is sound asleep?  (It happens.  I’ve seen it.)…