I’ve been popping in and out of Facebook all day today and an overwhelming number of posts are about looking back on the year we’ve just lived and looking forward to the one which starts tomorrow. That makes sense what with today being the last day of 2015 and tomorrow being the first day of…
Life
Giving Hope – Macy’s Heart of Haiti
This Christmas sort of snuck up on me. The past three months have brought a lot of change and frenzy into our lives and that hasn’t been simplified by the holiday season. I love buying presents for people, taking care to think of what they’ll love and use, not content to buy people obligatory junk…
Hello From the Other Side
Hello. It’s me. I was wondering if after all this time you’d like to read. Everything. About me… Okay, that’s as far as I got after spending 10 minutes trying to change the lyrics on the last line and then realizing that the part about healing and being healed was pretty accurate and then I…
An Act of Rebellion
I am 33 years old. I have spent approximately 15 of those years locked in a battle over meeting the world’s “ideal” standard of size and beauty. I’m done with that. When Jana and I started our first year of Listen To Your Mother: Atlanta, we knew we would both be reading on the stage….
Dear Fat Shamers…
A video went viral this weekend wherein a “comedian” mocked fat people, called them to the carpet, and said she was doing so because she cares. She wasn’t funny. She doesn’t care. And neither does that meathead who comments on every post about body acceptance saying we can’t “glorify obesity.” (Don’t be that dude.) Here’s…