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A year ago I embarked on something I called The Ugliness Project. Someone gave me a piece written by a young woman who was in terrible pain because she believed strongly in her own ugliness.  In this moving essay she articulated every single feeling I’ve had about myself at one time or another, and though […]

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You’ve seen her before, I call her Marilyn of Willendorf, which may be too obscure, but you can do a little Google searching if you’re curious, and on a bad day, this is how I see my body.  Though I do have arms, hands, and feet…  This is the second post about my body, and […]

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I love it, and as of today, I declare, no more fighting with food! For as far back as I can recall (and that’s a really long time) I have been fascinated with it. As a four-year-old, I would pry open four Oreo Cookies, take a slice of American Cheese, folded into quarters, and put […]

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