Man, it's been over TEN DAYS since I posted over here. Not right, guys. Not right ( Read more... )

It is incredible how many insurmountable and horrible and relationship-threatening problems are simple and breezy when one is receiving proper nutrition ( Read more... )

For as long as I can remember, I have had a huge appetite. I was the skinny girl in school who out-ate all her boyfriends, not to mention the rest of the football team. I can straight up devour an entire pizza and look around to see what's for dessert. Even when I am extremely full, full to the point of nausea, I am still ravenously hungry. I ( Read more... )

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I'm re-reading The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf (for the third time) right now. I recently realized that I had grown more and more uncomfortable in my skin, more and more focused on dieting and losing weight and not feeling like I looked right. Time to go back and refocus on what is real ( Read more... )

I haven't written in over a year, and I'm ok. I didn't think that was possible. I don't feel weird about it, or distant or separated or bottled up... I feel fine. I figure at some point, not writing will cease to feel fine, and when it does, I will write. But for now, I'm not gonna make myself feel guilty about it ( Read more... )

I realized this week that I am fully a grown-up, which is weird, because I do not feel like I am at all. I lost my glasses and found them on the top of my head. This is how I knew ( Read more... )

"According to the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs: 'While women represent 50 percent of the world population, they perform nearly two-thirds of all working hours, receive only one-tenth of the world income and own less than 1 percent of world property.'"
-Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

Hey y'all, Sheila Siobhan (Shannon Leigh's mother) has been in intensive care for H1N1 for the last week or so, and she's getting worse ( Read more... )