by Barbara Spanjers
When Weight Loss Is Celebrated, Even for the Wrong Reasons (part 1) “Did you lose weight?! You look fabulous!” she cried to a passerby. Some variation of this welcome was pretty common for my coworker. She used it as a form of social connection, because there were not...
by Barbara Spanjers
This is what comes out of my head when I sit by the pool watching my kid get squirted in the face with a water-blaster. It’s one week’s worth of haikus about dieting, weight, and body image (with more to come). I wore a swimsuit while writing these. Gotta walk the...
