I haven’t seen the TV show. I love Aidy Bryant and would love to see it, but we don’t have Hulu. (Sigh.) Anyhow. The book. It is the type of book that I usually avoid. A bunch of essays. Although, basically, Shrill is biographical. Lindy West is telling us about her life. Her life as…
If you are a skeptical person (which I try to be), Google Scholar is your friend (along with Snopes, of course, and all of the other quick ways to check on things that seem “too good/horrible to be true”). My husband is the editor for the NAAFA Newsletter and I help him with the news…
I see my psychiatrist now and then. Mostly just to check in to make sure the meds are working properly. (Good news, they are.) Today, she got to see me being a “delight” – something she had not seen to date (she’s fairly new; and let’s face it, I’m not often a “delight”.). She asked…
But I still attended the Ugly Conference. And, in my opinion, none of the people in attendance were ugly; but it is not my place to tell someone how they identify. Their experience is their experience. Another person at the conference, the ever wonderful Sondra Solovay said while she did not identify as ugly, she…
It’s like your birthday, it only comes once a year – thank God. And I, like most women, have an endless supply of bitching to do about this once-a-year ordeal. As I get older (and I am so getting older), my concerns about getting a mammogram aren’t so much about pain – the technology has…
I had to go to my HMO today. Big surprise – parking is a nightmare. Actually, even worse than ever because they are doing some kind of construction with half of the parking lot. But, they have people there to direct you to parking places. That was nice. And then the guy directing people to…
THE CIGARETTE COMPANIES ALREADY TRIED IT!!!! Shame on Weight Watchers®. Shame on you Oprah. Society has finally started to catch wise to the fact that dieting doesn’t work for the vast majority of people. Weight Watchers, itself, revealed in an internal memo that it relies on repeat customers for a large part of its revenue. …
A recent “study” is all over the news this week. http://www.pulseheadlines.com/artificial-sweeteners-lose-weight-linked-overweight-diabetes/65287/ “Artificial Sweeteners Makes you Fatter” (Okay, I’m paraphrasing … but that’s the gist of it.) So I look at the abstract for the study (because no, I’m not shelling out money to read the whole thing, which I probably wouldn’t understand anyhow): http://www.cmaj.ca/content/189/28/E929.abstract And…
Don’t you love discovering things you really, really like? There is, of course, the question of, “How did I not know about this?” But you know now, and that’s a goodness. Making the rounds in the fat community is a lovely music video by rapper/singer Lizzo for her song My Skin. Lizzo reminds me…
(No, this is not me in my new dress – I can’t send pictures of me to my e-mail with my phone, and my husband is out for a walk, and I just don’t feel like waiting before I post this.) As all fat people know, finding cute and stylish clothing is a problem. But…
Thoughts from a Fat Old Lady 