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Things have been less than stellar lately. They are all life deal-able things. Babies won’t die. But it hasn’t exactly been easy.  I worked hard over this week to pull myself out of a self-deprecating muck and back onto solid ground. Then yesterday, my father called. There is nothing like a parent drilling you over the phone, while you are at work and can’t properly brat out, about life choices you are completely unable to face at the moment to make you – make me – feel as lost and confused about my life as I was 10 years ago.  Read more >

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the idea of  overcoming negative body image verses the basic fact that being overweight is not good for you.  Yes, as a society we are fed unrealistic images of the perfect Barbie-like woman that growing up made me feel hopelessly inadequate.  But with childhood obesity on the rise, and the devastating effects this will inevitably have on the lifelong health of our kids, how wise is it to embrace the notion of being fat and fabulous?    Read more >