Hey, check out this Kickstarter! "Athena's Daughters" is an anthology of speculative fiction about women, written by women -- so says the description, and I believe this is something we need more of ( Read more... )

I'm not going to rant about my period. naamah_darling has already posted the definitive rant about cutesy-poo "feminine hygiene products" and the inconvenience of bleeding from the crotch on a regular basis. I'm just going to post this brief poll:

Poll Menstruation

Today I ate:

Breakfast, 8:30 am
1 cup coffee with a splash of skim milk, no sugar
1 banana

Snack, 10:00 am
1 hardboiled egg rolled in a few (4? 5?) crushed jalapeno & lime potato chips

Lunch, 12:30 pm
2 oz cheddar cheese
12 little crackers (Sociables)
2 carrots, cut into sticks
3 mini almond Snickers
20 oz bottle of water

Snack, 4:00 pm1 large ( Read more... )

I have been participating in the Incendiary Food performance art, and it has really raised some issues for me.

When I first read fearfuloptimist's post that started the whole thing, I was a bit taken aback. My first reaction to her was to be taken aback. She was admitting to eating candy! Pie! Junk food! With no apology, no remorse! Didn't she know that people ( Read more... )

(To be updated throughout the day)

Breakfast, 9:00 am
1 cup coffee with splash skim milk, no sugar
1 peanut-butter and jelly sandwich (made with no-sugar-added peanut butter, and quince jam)
water

Snack, 11:00 am
1 cheese stick
water

Lunch, 1:30 pm1 egg sandwich (2 buttered slices whole-wheat bread sprinkled with chicken bouillion powder, 1 ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ate:

Breakfast, 8:00 am
1 cup coffee with splash skim milk, no sugar

Snack, 9:30 am
1 large skim milk latte, no sugar
1 cranberry-pecan scone

Lunch, Noon
1 barbecue sandwich (pulled pork in sauce on a kaiser roll)
1 dill pickle spear
1 cup roasted vegetables (mostly zucchini)
20-oz bottle of water

Snack, 3:30 pm1 cup coffee with ( Read more... )

Today I ate:

Breakfast
1 cup water
1 cup of coffee with a dash of skim milk, no sugar
2 slices raisin bread, toasted, with butter
the heel of the loaf of raisin bread, plain

Mid-morning snack
1 enormous honeycrisp apple
1 cheese stick
a few swallows water

Lunch1 egg-salad sandwich (2 slices whole-wheat bread, 1 hardboiled egg, mayonnaise, green ( Read more... )

(to be updated throughout the day)

Today I ate:

1 cup of coffee with skim milk, no sugar
2 slices raisin bread, toasted, with margarine

3 trips to the brunch buffet:1 tall glass tomato juice ( Read more... )

Here's what I ate today ( Read more... )

Here's what I ate today ( Read more... )