…I was a runner. I never got very good at it (because, even as a child, I was never good at it), but I found it to be peculiarly satisfying. The shape of my body is not conducive to the mechanics of running, generally speaking. I have short legs and flat feet. I am very [...]

“US Death Rates Drop Dramatically”
“As the population grows, experts generally expect the actual number of deaths to go up slightly. This year’s data was a surprise. ‘We’re scratching our heads a bit,’ Miniño confessed.”
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!

I wanted to address was something I read a while back, and have been sort of turning over in the back of my head ever since. [Via The Fat Girl.]
“These are the fat acceptance zealots — using fat acceptance and ‘in your face’ fat imagery and messages in order to shock the world into accepting [...]

Following Paul McAleer’s talk, I somehow found myself falling in step with Paul Campos, who was wandering out of the building in the same direction I was. Dee and I had planned to lunch with Paul McAleer following his talk, but there was a lot of confusion and lots of fat people headed for the [...]

We slept beautifully again, our second night in Massachusetts. I woke up early again, with the birds, and dove into the enormous Edwardian bathtub. I used up all the hot water on accident. I hope no one noticed.
Breakfast was pancakes and sausages. This time we left unfinished muffins on our plates, and I imagined the [...]

Bird songs woke me up at 6am. I decided to get a jump on the shower situation, since we were sharing two communal bathrooms among three guest rooms. I took a shower in a semi-converted Victorian tub, using a series of odd contortions, and vowed to use the Olympic-sized bathtub the next morning.
Breakfast was with [...]

Dee and I left Toronto around 9:30 in the morning. We got coffee and pastries in Cabbagetown, then didn’t stop until New York state, where we got gas and a map, and where I bought 29-cent Whatchamacallits. Because, Jesus Christ, 29-cent Whatchamacallits!
We are both Americans, and straddling North America in the way we do is [...]

Mary Bush, “the director general for Health Canada’s office of nutrition and planning,” visited my nutrition class yesterday. I loved her.
Recently, she’s taken a lot of flack for revising Canada’s Food Guide. For example, changing the range of fruit & vegetable servings from 5-10 to 4-9 (not to discourage people from eating fruits and vegetables, [...]

Over at Big Fat Blog, BuffPuff said: “…if it were simply a matter of physicality - learning to live comfortably in a fat body – that, in itself, wouldn’t be so hard. But it’s not that simple. It’s learning to survive in the current societal climate. It’s living each day knowing you ARE the very [...]