Quicky FYI: Comments policy

I updated the comments policy today. Due to being added to the fatosphere feed, I’m sure I’m going to have a lot more commenters than I’d been having. So keeping my comments moderated seemed like putting the whole group through something that only a few deserve.
So as of today, I put them on [...]

Apparently Hubby’s Friends are Size-Positive, too.

I was relating to The Hubster the story about the Olsen twins and their Starbucks Debacle.  He didn’t understand the big deal about it until I turned it around for him.
“What if, say, you and I were out to dinner, and I ordered… ice cream… for a dessert?  And the waitress brought me a bowl [...]

When ‘home’ is gone.

I’ve known for a long time that my grandmother wanted to sell the house. The house that my grandfather built with his own two hands (and largely out of scraps from other jobs [he was a carpenter]). The house that my father grew up in. The house that I grew up in. [...]

An Act of Kindness that Changed My Life

According to Peggy Elam at On the Whole, today bloggers are being encouraged to write about acts of human kindness, and I have a great story, so I thought I’d go ahead and tell it.
It was the winter of 2000, and I’d just had a baby.  Because of being on maternity leave and some unexpected [...]

Christmas Stress

I used to love Christmas.
I loved everything about it.  The feeling in the air that started right after Thanksgiving and built up in intensity the closer it got to the big day.  The way everything seemed to sparkle just that little bit more because it was that time of year.  I loved the gaudy decorations [...]

You might be wondering…

… why I wrote that last post. 
Well, here’s the thing.  Ever since I started this blog, without fail, a few times a week I get people surfing in through search engines with something along the lines of what I wrote.  “I’m fat and he’s leaving me” or “my husband says I’m fat” or “my husband left [...]

A Message to Those Surfing in Through Search Engines

Did you use the words “I’m fat and he wants to leave me” and it brought you here?
Or any variation on that theme?
I want to tell you something:
It’s not your fault.
It’s not your fault that he’s a shallow asshat that can’t see what he’s got right in front of him.  It’s not your fault that [...]

Channel 4: How to Look Good Naked

I hadn’t actually meant to do a running commentary on British television shows, but I’m noticing more and more shows that really speak to me as a Fat Woman and a Woman Seeking Self Acceptance that I just can’t help it.
So class, today’s topic is Channel 4’s series How To Look Good Naked.  I have [...]

7 Random Things

Taking up The Rotund’s invitation, I thought I’d do another meme – it’s good for breaking up the seriousness of the blog, if nothing else.  And I know a lot of you that do read what I write hardly know anything about me, so it’s good for a little “get to know you”, as well.
So [...]

I can made lolcat.

Or… well… lolDOG.

Updated to add: I can made an udder one!