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Barbie At 50, Still A Rolemodel

03.29.2009

Don’t underestimate the reach of the Internet, ever. Barbie Googles, it seems, and she is not happy! With me!!

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An Open Letter To My Fat Cells

03.18.2009

I have a bone to pick with you. You are a million tiny dark clouds that, en masse, have been growing inside of me, haunting me. Terrorizing me, really. You are like pigeons who hang around garbage dumpsters. . .

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Why I Stay Home

03.13.2009

I have another one of those social thingies to go to tonight. I was all hot-to-trot when I first heard about it, drinks at an Irish pub downtown, 6-8pm. I planned the ‘when shall I wash my hair, do my nails’ around it–all the girly stuff that makes going out an anticipatory blowout. But now [...]

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The MidLife Issue: Who Are We?

03.10.2009

We just don’t have words in the English language to describe between the pupa stage of our child-bearing years and the full grown butterfly of elderhood.

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AARP: Do You Know Where Your Membership Card Is ???

02.20.2009

The envelope came this week. To be honest, it came as a bit of a surprise. I really thought the mailman made a mistake…..till I saw my name on it. Wait a minute here, I’m not 50 yet. I haven’t wrapped my head around the fact yet…. that I’ll be 50 in September. WOW! It’s not that I don’t KNOW I’ll be 50 this year and in some ways I’ve been preparing for what I want to do for my birthday. But there is a difference between planning a getaway to a spa and a boozy filled weekend with the girls and shoving a “Hey yo, yeah you, you’re old” card in my face.

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Requiem For My Waistline

02.02.2009

In conclusion, this post doesn’t have any big point to it (do they ever?) except to use my small public forum to officially announce that as A Woman Of A Certain Age, I feel I have earned the right to say that though yes, God looks at the inside and though yes, I am eternally grateful to be healthy and happy and living in a democracy, the bald-faced truth of it all is that certain aspects of the aging process just… suck.

That is all. **bows deeply**

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Found: FatCatchers Diary Discovered In the Garbage Behind Weight Watchers

01.23.2009

After blogging yesterday, I got all caught up in an internet surfstorm, which pretty much blew the day away, so I didn’t make it to the gym. I don’t like going after 4pm, when it’s crowded, but I’ll get there eventually. It’s just a matter of scheduling. Plus, I still have to find my membership card. Found a Netflix movie underneath a pile of bills, though. I forgot all about Netflix. So I watched a movie and ordered a pizza. Have you ever had the stuffed cinnamon cream cheese rolls they have at Big Fat Pizza Guys? OMG, they’re to die for!

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I Have Nothing to Wear: Pants Department, or How about that elastic waist?

12.05.2008

By Laura G. of Rebellious Thoughts of a Woman Perhaps the most serious flaw or failure to appear in my closet is pants. This may be news to the clothing companies, but women have thighs and for some horribly upsetting reason, they get bigger as we get older. As the breadth of our experience widens, [...]

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Bodysnarking nastiness

07.21.2008

By Ellen Besso of MidLife Maze In the Vancouver Sun recently, there was an article on bodysnarking, a term I was unfamiliar with. I knew women were cruel to other women about bodies and body image, I just didn’t know it was this formallized, I guess I could say. According to the article, “bodysnarking involves [...]

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