I restarted Weight Watchers last week. I’d reached a tipping point, thankfully not one involving my chair, and it was time. It wasn’t the fact that none of my clothes fit that pushed me over the edge, but instead social avoidance beyond even my norm that did it. A friend I hadn’t seen in five [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Crying high
12.03.09 –
I’m on a flight to New Orleans. There’s a child maybe three rows behind me who won’t stop the yelling, the wailing in all directions with her head about to eject right from her shoulders. I’ve noticed that parents don’t turn children toward them when they start this kind of thing. Instead, they face their [...]