I signed up the whole family for a YMCA membership the other day. Call it a preemptive post- Halloween fallout maneuver, if you must. I call it a practical rally for physical and mental sanity. The gray rain is starting to get me down already, and despite our best efforts, our family tends to sit around [...]
I’ve been researching and writing about all the snarky, mean fat people stuff all week at Cafe Mom’s “The Stir” blog, in response to the Marie Claire fiasco. So, when Roxanne posted this funny Saturday Night Live spoof on Spanx, it made me laugh. Enjoy!
In cased you missed it, a bunch of people are mad at Marie Claire Magazine, and one of their writers, Maura Kelly. She wrote an article about how watching fat people kiss on a TV show grosses her out, and compared the horrors of watching them do anything to watching a heroin addict or a [...]
Okay, so maybe I’m not officially on the team, and maybe I just saw them in the parking lot up at Hendrick’s Park in Eugene after my walk, and, I admit I can’t run quite as fast as any of them (since we all know U 0f O has one of the best track programs [...]
Many things conspired to shut my running window today. As usual. But the cool autumn sunshine was streaming through the glass, onto my desk. It kept tickling my brain with promises and light. “Come outside with me,” it whispered. “Hurry, hurry, I’ll be gone before you know it…” You can’t argue with the sun. Right? [...]
My new trainer, IronMom Robin, told me to meet her at the pool the other day. The outside pool. So I whined because it was about 58 degrees, which seems too cold for hanging out at the pool. But then she chirped “oh, you’ll be warm in the water, don’t worry!” So of course I [...]
We went to Ye Olde Pancake House for this week’s Sunday Morning Marriage and Breakfast Review. We haven’t been there since 1995. It looks exactly the same. A dated, but clean place trying to look Swedish. Sort of. As soon as we sat down in the periwinkle blue-backed booth and saw the white spinny stools [...]
Two thumbs up for meeting in real life. Several moms, one teenager and a toddler showed up to our October Chubby Mommy Running Club Social last night. There was a lot of getting to know each other and running plan-making going on. There was also some orange throwing by a cute baby. And some knee pinching: [...]
My new trainer Robin is an IronMom. Like, for real. She’s tough, and I wouldn’t want to meet her in a dark alley. But if I had to be in a dark alley, I’d want to have her with me, to beat up the bad guys. I’m scared to death of dark alleys, though, so [...]
I’ve been “under the weather” this week, and considered canceling my Sunday morning brunch date with my husband. The relentless pouring rain and dizzying side effects from some new massive vitamins my doctor prescribed tried to lull me back to bed and a nap. But I was in NYC last Sunday and missed our date, [...]
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