I am old school theater. Really old. I grew up during the days when you didn’t have body mics. Hell, many productions I’ve done had no mics whatsoever. (That’s how old I am.) You were told to project so the people in the last row can hear you. There are good things and bad things…

In the best of times, I’m not a fan of grocery shopping – and these are definitely NOT the best of times. No matter what I’m getting, it takes an hour in the store. And then, I have to unload the car (usually with my husband’s help); and then put it all away. I consider…

Lately, all over FaceBook, I’m seeing people posing about how FAT they’re getting because of the shelter-in-place / quarantine. You’re getting FAT? The horror. You mean, you are absolutely disgusted that you might possibly turn into some version of me? Yeah. That’s what you’re saying. And I’m hearing your message loud and clear. So, when…

My first office job was for a small (personal) loan business called Liberty Loan. I turned up for my interview, thinking I was the height of fashion – with my burgundy and white polka dot jumpsuit and matching bolero jacket and my platform shoes.  (Yikes.) The guy who hired me admitted later that he had…

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…