Just another thought to bookend the complicated aspect of yesterday’s post on compulsive eating. [Thanks, Kelly G.] This is the trailer for Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly 4 DVD, which was just released. She attempts to distill what advertising tells us about women–in about 5 minutes. You can find other posts of hers on YouTube, […]
Why Do We Eat When We’re Not Hungry
When I read about this book in O Magazine, I thought, Hmmm, could be interesting. Because, you see, I if I’m blatantly honest, I’ve been trying to stay a certain weight all my life. Ostensibly for health, but really for looks. Roth, in a chapter called “Tigers in the Mind” begins: “No matter how developed […]
Post-Christian?
Since I have an interfaith audience–which I’m ecstatic about–what I’m about to tell you will shock some, will be well-duh! to others. I’ve not attended church in over a year and a half. [This may not seem outrageous to some of you, but you have to understand, churchgoing is not negotiable where I come from. […]
Spilling Open
Wow. I just finished the most amazing book. I’m eager to share it with Liliana when she’s old enough. I think this would become one of those books that acts as Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret did for teenaged girls way back when. What a relief, what a revelation–when you realize that someone […]
Revisions–What To Do When You Don’t Want To Do Them
Fanfare, please! Ta-da! We have two winners of John Jodzio’s signed short story collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home. They are, in no official order: Dani Rice & Jess [If the two of you would e-mail me at comment4elissa at gmail dot com (or FB me) with your address, I’ll gladly mail […]