Fat Woman Walking: Tolerate, Accept, or Celebrate?
It’s a good time to be plus size. At least the interwebs says it is. I have seen a plethora of stories about us larger ladies and all the amazing things we are doing these days like running marathons,...
View ArticleA Case of the Blahs
I’m not particularly prone to depression. I have my moments of not wanting to get out of bed and face the world, just like any of us do from time to time, but fortunately those are few and far between...
View ArticleTo Do List
Here are a few short steps to have a happy/healthy/successful/long/fulfilling life: Sleep 7-8 hours a night Take Naps – *NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN PEOPLE* Eat your vegetables Cut out sugar and alcohol, and...
View ArticleDid Diversity Die on November 8?
A couple of people have asked me when I was going to write about the election. Frankly, my mind has been too jangled up lately to say anything remotely coherent. While I certainly don’t have my...
View ArticleNevertheless, We Persisted
“If you divert over to the other block, you will be able to finish the marathon and get your medals. No one will know the difference.” That was the message delivered to us somewhere after Mile 19 this...
View ArticleWhy Jury Duty Matters
This post was originally written in October 2012 when I was working for LexBlog. It was posted on the Client Services team blog, Please Advise, and can can now be viewed on LXBN. Re-posted here with...
View ArticleMy Friend Craig
I learned today that an old friend and colleague, Craig Pfaff, passed away back in May. He had had a stroke in 2015/2016 and his health was never quite the same after that. I knew when I got a “non...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like To Be Obese
Huffington Post recently published Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong. The lengthy and thought-provoking article reveals how the medical community, along with everyone else (obese people...
View ArticleProud to be American?
Like many of my other fellow Americans, I spent this Fourth of the July watching the filmed stage production of Hamilton. Seemed fitting as it is about the founding of our country as we fought for...
View ArticleA Year in the Pandemic Life
One year ago today, Friday March 13, 2020, was the last time I flew on a plane. I had spent two weeks in Memphis, working from my mother’s apartment. I was there ostensibly to take her to a doctor’s...
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