I post these blogs (thisfatoldlady.com) every day. I post them on FaceBook and my FaceBook page (This Fat Old Lady). Now I post YouTube videos every day. I post them on YouTube (Terri Weitze), and share them on Twitter and FaceBook. I have lots of friends and family on FaceBook. Most everybody is quarantined. You…

Performing at the Fischer Opera Haus in Frankenmuth, Michigan, was so much fun. However, glamorous, it wasn’t. Backstage, there was one dressing room – strictly coed; and at either end of that room were the toilets – one for the guys, one for the gals. That was it. There were two long (folding type) tables…

Last week I posted a rant bitching about how my work was forcing me to learn all this new computer stuff to keep the law firm’s website up to date. I complained that I was too old to have to learn all of that new fangled computer stuff. I was feeling so put upon. And…

Should be no surprise to anyone, but the news is now claiming that fat folks are more at-risk for COVID-19 complications. Why are they more at risk? Because they are fat? Surely, that must be it, because that’s what the headlines are saying. No. People with (poorly controlled) diabetes, heart disease and lung disease (COPD…

I don’t like to sew. But I know how to sew. I don’t so much not like the actual sewing – it’s all the prep work. Cutting out all the little (and huge) pattern bits (on that crappy thin paper that tears so easily) – Pinning it to the fabric and don’t forget the interface!…

I already posted to FaceBook today a video clip of one song. I thought, maybe, I’d try to post the same clip to my WordPress site. WordPress freaked at the size of the video file, and insisted I needed to upgrade. Okay, I think, maybe I should. I am blogging a lot, and it would…

If you are in a show with me, and you really want to piss me off, there are a couple things you can do. First, just don’t. Okay? Neither one of us is going to be happy with the results of pissing me off. But if you must … Fuck around offstage where I can…

I am currently employed as a legal word processor. Most of my work experience is as a legal secretary/paralegal – estate planning, probate, and transactional (including entity formation, corporate formalities, real estate, contracts, etc.), plus some bookkeeping thrown in. I am also certified as an medical insurance coder and medical transcriptionist. Nothing in this has…

A lot of fat people feel terrorized by the scale. I can absolutely respect this. Fat people are subject to all kinds of abuse and discrimination simply because of the number on a scale. Sometimes that abuse comes from others, sometimes from within. I don’t let the scale rule my life, but I do weigh…

My Grandma Harris was the sweetest little old lady you would ever want to meet. She was the picture of what a grandma is supposed to be. But she was definitely MY Grandma. I have three favorite memories that prove it. First. I used to tickle my Grandma’s feet when she was sitting in her…