The other day I was walking into the gym when something strange happened. I was thinking hard about something or other, and not really paying attention, when suddenly I realized someone was shouting. I turned to see a girl with her head hanging out the passenger window of a car, …
I have been a people watcher for as long as I can remember. From shopping malls to fairs and festivals to airports, there is nothing like sitting back and watching people go by. What kind of people are they? What are their lives like? Why did they choose that particular …
The other day I was looking through the PopSugar Fitness website (formerly known as FitSugar), because apparently I like to test my ability to read complete garbage without throwing up. If you aren’t familiar, PopSugar is a group of websites that, according to them, “delivers the biggest moments, the hottest …
So you’re sitting there at the computer, doing whatever it is you do, and you get an email: “So-and-so tagged you in a photo on Facebook.” Just before you click the See Photo link, what goes through your mind? Do I look good? Do I look bad? Do I look… …
On Friday, I predicted that I was going to walk my eleventh half marathon with my heart. Turns out, I walked it with my guts. Pure, obstinate guts. You probably can’t tell from the photo above, but I was pretty nervous at the start of the race. My leg was …
In just about 48 hours, I’ll be standing at the start line of my eleventh half marathon. I’ve walked this course before – five times. I know each turn, each hill, each water stop. I know the cacophony of the start line, and the loneliness of those middle miles on …
Have you seen one of these pop up in your Facebook feed? These types of images/quotes are written by teenagers (at least I hope they are), but I see them passed around on adults’ walls all the time. The messages are clearly resonating beyond the hallways of our local high …
I’ve been thinking lately – reminiscing is too pleasant of a word – about the way certain people treated me when I was young. It’s funny, I don’t remember thinking of it as being bullied, but of course that’s exactly what it was. I was (brace yourselves) fat, so of …
Have you seen this commercial? Really powerful stuff. First of all, because these women talk about how going to buy jeans is such a traumatic, depressing experience. How sad and awful that we let the number on a tag inside our pants dictate how we feel about ourselves. A number …
Imagine you’re 14, you’re at the mall with your mom and your friend, it’s your birthday, and you’re super psyched (do kids still say “psyched”?) to do some shopping. So you head into rue21, and that’s when a store employee tells you you’re too fat to be shopping there, and …
