“I’ve given up trying to hide my bra straps,” I announced to my friend before yoga the other day. She looked at me like I was crazy. To be fair, she often does. “I have so many tank tops and so many bras,” I explained. “And none of them ever line up. I’m just showing the straps, I don’t care…
“This is what most girls are taught — that we should be slender and small. We should not take up space.” — Roxanne Gay In yoga class today we were talking about taking up space. It was a “curvy yoga” class for larger people and as our instructor talked about the ways larger women in particular are trained…
I have to admit it: I’ve had a long-time crush on Joe Biden. He’s smart, charming, handsome, and has a sense of humor I find appealing. I mostly agree with his politics. I love the work he’s done fighting against domestic violence. But here’s what I don’t like…..he’s also quite grabby. If you look at pictures, there he is, almost…
Recently my roommate was out of town so I brought her dog with us when I was walking my own dog. As I cruised through the neighborhood with a hyper dog on each side, I felt a new appreciation for dog walkers. Apparently if they walk together, both dogs totally forget that they know how to heel and walk nicely.…
“Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.” — Kate Spade I’ve never been much of a “girlie girl”. I don’t remember playing dress up at all as a child. I’ve never had much interest in make-up or clothes or fashion magazines. Honestly, if I didn’t have to go to work I’d live in yoga pants and never wear…
“Now all we need is to continue to speak the truth fearlessly, and we shall add to our number those who will turn the scale to the side of equal and full justice in all things.” — Lucy Stone In this age of social media, every day is a celebration of something: beer, roses, pandas and today, women. Some might…
This week I’ve been thinking a lot about how we re-imagine the past. It’s interesting how we look back at things from when we were younger and using today’s frame of reference, either judge them as better or worse than they were. There’s a couple of very striking examples of this that have come up over the past week. First,…
I don’t watch a lot of TV. I don’t have cable and I will often go weeks without turning on the TV. But recently I saw some clips of a show called Outlander and wanted to check it out. I searched until I found the remote. I re-hooked up the roku. And I settled in to enjoy what I thought…
This weekend my brother and I were meeting in Florida for a shared vacation. We were supposed to arrive at the same time but my connecting flight was delayed several hours, so my brother went on ahead to the place we were staying. Unfortunately they wouldn’t let him access our room since the reservation was in my name, so he…
