I recently read How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. It took me awhile because there is so much in this book that I wanted to absorb. Part of what I want to understand is the racist that lives in me (one of the premises of the book is we all have…

My high school was a new high school.  My sister (who is five years older than me) was in its first graduating class. So we also had a lot of younger teachers.  They were good teachers – just young. And as we got older, some of us students even became friends with those teachers –…

In this case “WTF” stands for Who the Fuck (is) … One of my Fat Old Lady followers let me know someone on FaceBook, using the name Doris Lipscomb, was using my photo! Weird, right? NO! This person (if it is a living person and not a bot) is spewing the must hateful shit and…

Last night I had a variation on a theme, recurrent nightmare. I am in a show.  I arrive late.  My costumes are nowhere to be found.  I can’t remember how long before I have to go on, so I don’t know if I have time to go to where wardrobe is stored to get my…

When my husband’s sister Elise became very ill, I went to New Jersey for a couple of months or so to deal with it.  (Bill is not great with medical stuff and his other sister had been dealing with everything for a long time – so I felt, I was the logical choice to step…

THIS FAT OLD LADY’S FAT FRIDAY – SOOSH Can you believe it? Another artist who is new to me! Soosh! Snezhana Soosh – from the Urkaine, not to be confused with R. Soosh from Australia. Not only does Soosh do pencil drawings which often feature fat bodies, often the fat bodies are male! The series…

As far as I know, my sister Linda, only went sleep walking once. As far as I know, I only went sleep walking once in my life. I guess, we were just one and done as far as sleep walking went. I don’t remember how old Linda was when she had her little nocturnal foray…

Sometimes I think the attorneys at my firm just send me stuff to keep me busy. I mean they couldn’t be that stupid. Could they? I had an attorney send me an attachment of discovery requests and saying that another attorney had assigned her the task of responding and she was told that I had…

There is nothing harder to deal with than when you get the giggles onstage. I am pretty good about not breaking character. Here are some of my tricks of the trade: Pain.  Bite the inside of your mouth – better have a mouthful of blood than break character!  Dig your nails into your hand or…

I have not been to Pinterest in a long time (like years); but I had a hankering to see if there was anything new and interesting that I might add to my (many) boards on Fat Art / Fat Photos / Fat Figures / Fat Illustration, etc. I found a new (to me) artist that…