Supermeow!

Happy New Year! I spent most of the month of December feeling thoroughly overwhelmed and anxious. I am genuinely pleased that 2011 is over, and I’ve got a lot of optimism for 2012 to not suck so hard. Still, I worked myself into a bit of a tizzy in December. Without going into details, there…  Continued »

Before I even started to write this post, I wanted to find a good image to accompany it, so off I went to istockphoto.com. I entered the search string “beautiful fat woman.” 1 result! “Fat woman” yielded many more. Lots of photos of women dieting, overweight women surrounded by food, overweight women next to slimmer…  Continued »

Last November, my father had angioplasty. He had a couple of clogged arteries, but rather than put in stents, they thought he’d do better with a change in diet and exercise. He’s been struggling with the diet because my father, like me, hasn’t got a sweet tooth so much as a salt tooth. He’s lost…  Continued »

So, The Phantom Gourmet is a local restaurant “review” show on one of the local regular-type-broadcast channels. It’s kind of horrible in that every episode seems to be about where you can go to get the giantest, most fried food in the greatest quantities for the lowest price and the lowest common denominator. To be…  Continued »