If you haven’t seen the Muppet Movie, you’ll miss the reference. But if you loved the Cee-Lo Green song as much as I did, you’ll get it without having had to see the movie. I like being distracted just as much as I like being a distraction… and yeah, right now, there’s not much of [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2011
There is more to life than survival.
- 21
- Nov
My kitchen windowsill has 4 little plants growing: a sprouting avocado seed, a succulent in a ceramic bowl, a Jade cutting that we picked up off the sidewalk during a walk home, and a fern I bought from the grocery store. When I was about 25 I figured this thing out about myself: money and [...]
Reformation vs. Revolution
- 11
- Nov
A good way for me to measure how much I care about something is by how much time I spend talking to my kids about it. You can tell I could give not one fuck about sports because I’ve probably spent a total of 8 hours out of their entire lifetimes talking about it to [...]
Filling out my FAFSA was like filing for divorce.
- 09
- Nov
I got my confirmation of graduation in the mail today. Instant flashback: Ten years ago my boyfriend came home from work and found me teaching our two sons how to read, and was seriously upset with me. At the time, C was 9 moths old and E was just over 2. They are 15 months [...]
Why you so serious, sexy?
- 06
- Nov
I’ve inherited one helluva of a scowl. I get it from my father, who got it from his father, who got it from his mother. And I’ve passed it down to my younger son. My older son takes after my mom’s side. When he’s serious his barely there blonde eyebrows lift higher, like they’re going [...]
Call for submission: Fat Pos Anthology
- 02
- Nov
Editor Virgie Tovar is currently seeking submissions for a ground-breaking new fat positive anthology to be released in 2012. Please see the details below and HURRY! Deadline is Nov 15th, 2011. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : FAT-POSITIVE ANTHOLOGY 1500-3000 words Editor: Virgie Tovar - author, fat activist/lifetime fat girl, and MA, Human Sexuality Deadline: November 15, 2024
