The Best Time of Life

I will be 59-years old this year. Let me restate that…I will be in my last year prior to turning 60 this year. I’m unsure how that happened. It seems like only ten years ago that I was in high school. Somehow in that ten years, I got married, had three kids, got divorced, was…

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The Pandemic Dress Code

So….I have put on the quarantine fifteen…nineteen…twenty-two. And then I stopped weighing myself. I have backed myself in a clothing corner, unfortunately. I refuse to buy larger clothes and I gave away all of my big-lady clothes in April when the stay-at-home orders prompted a mass cleaning of my house. I was in my Kon-Mari…

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Peace in a Pandemic

2020 has been quite a year. I think one of my favorite memes has been a picture of David Bowie as the Goblin King. The caption read, “At this point, if the Goblin King invited me into the Labyrinth, I’d just go…” I think we all would. So far this year, Australia started burning, the…

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The Quarantine 15 and Silencing Bill

I lost forty pounds last year. I needed to, desperately, since managing my weight becomes an all consuming activity as soon as I hit size 14. At size 16, I will have crossed the line to obsessive/compulsive behavior, buying every workout program that promises results and thinking about my weight on a minute-by-minute basis. It’s…

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Social Injustice – Just an Opinion

Here we are in the back-half of 2020…and the year continues to bring more unrest. It’s been interesting to watch the varying responses to our current social crisis. Some people think it’s a crisis because the issue of racial inequality has never been dealt with. Some people think it’s a crisis because there is rioting…

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