f the open hypocrisy.As a fat girl I was bullied in school AND in Sunday School qith no help from those "good" Christians. Poorer than most of the attendees, I…Apr 17, 2024Apr 17, 2024
Carrie Turns FiftyThis year “Carrie” turns fifty.Apr 7, 2024A response icon1Apr 7, 2024A response icon1
Female + Fat = Fake?Author’s note: Confession — there was a time, in elementary school in the late 1950s when I did pretend to be sick. I hated going to…Mar 24, 2024Mar 24, 2024
Time with the Sopranos..I spent one week with the entire series and this is what I discoveredMar 12, 2024A response icon1Mar 12, 2024A response icon1
Today I Wrote My ObituaryToday I wrote my obituary. I’m not dying — at least not now. But I am 76 and life itself is the real terminal illness.Dec 31, 2023Dec 31, 2023
Help Your Children with Their Dreams…My father was not the type to openly express his love — at least not to me. So, I have few fond memories of the two of us.Dec 27, 2023Dec 27, 2023
How to Destroy Someone’s Sense of Worth from Childhood On…When I was a “preteen” I was fat, I’d been fat since I was 8. Being fat in the late 1950s and living in a lower middle-class family was not…Dec 24, 2023A response icon1Dec 24, 2023A response icon1
Christmas Day Alone…Divorced and with a grown daughter living almost 3000 miles away, for a few years Christmas Day for me could have been lonely. If I had a…Dec 23, 2023Dec 23, 2023
An Old Lady Walks into a Grocery Store…An old woman walks into a grocery store. You can tell she’s old — her walking is hesitant; she has gray hair and is using a cane which she…Dec 12, 2023Dec 12, 2023