On Saturday night, I was supposed to hang out with my friend Mean Asian Girl and the Mean Whasian Baby, because their hub/dad was out of town, and earlier in the week, M.A.G. had anticipated wanting some company in his absence. Like, the kind of company that keeps you from actually banging your head against … Continue reading »
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Happy Yogaversary to Me
It’s been a year now since I started the yoga class that made me fall in love with yoga. I started thinking about that in bed this morning, as I was doing your typical just-woke-up stretches. Instead of simply doing whatever felt good, as I did for the first 31 years of my life, I … Continue reading »
"You’re Not Fat"
My ass, February 2007 One of my oldest friends just sent me an e-mail in which she said those words, meaning them in the kindest possible way (and bookending them with lots of lovely compliments), but she hit a button. I’ve been wanting to write something on my hatred of those words for a long … Continue reading »
This Just In: Bodies Are Different
This is awesome. For as much as I think (and rant) about genetic differences among body types, I never thought much about what’s beneath the muscle and fat, or lack thereof. Paul Grilley teaches anatomy to yoga teachers, and the above slideshow demonstrates how vastly different a couple of equally “normal” bones can be. The … Continue reading »
More Rambling about Body Image, Yoga, and My Shitty Childhood
Thanks to Cynical Girl for sharing the new Dove ad (er, Dove “film”), “Evolution,” which I’ve watched about half a dozen times now. (The part that kills me is when they retouch the photo to make her eyes bigger; I pretty much expected everything else, but it never occurred to me that they do that. … Continue reading »
