Compliment Complex

Cana someone tell me what the wait time is before I can start believing people when they compliment me?
It’s one of the woes of getting married.
“Didn’t they teach you to cover your hair in Kallah Classes?”
“It looks like it’s growing out of your head!”
“It looks just like your hair, amazing!”
Look, I love my shaitel (as [...]

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The Losers Loss

Don’t lose weight.
 
Yes, I know the entire world is harping on obesity and that you should exercise and eat right or you will die (yawn).  What you should also know is that you have more to lose than losing weight, when if and how you lose it.
 
1)     Food tastes good. Period. When you diet, you [...]

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Fat is Not a Fairy Tale

Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale
Jane Yolen
I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Cinder Elephant,
Sleeping Tubby,
Snow Weight,
where the princess is not
anorexic, wasp-waisted,
flinging herself down the stairs.
I am thinking of a fairy tale,
Hansel and Great,
Repoundsel,
Bounty and the Beast,
where the beauty
has a pillowed breast,
and fingers plump as sausage.
I am thinking of a fairy tale
that is not yet written,
for [...]

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