Okay, I’m hooked. I admit it. I’m addicted to reality TV. But not just any reality TV. My drug of choice is makeover reality TV. In one short half hour, some poor ugly duckling becomes a beautiful swan right before my eyes in my very own living room. It’s the stuff of fairy tales, and [...]
August 2011
Today was a big day. I rekindled the flame of an old love of mine. A lover I have been avoiding for the past twenty years. Why? Because twenty years ago I decided I was too fat to enjoy the attentions of my lover. Today I said the hell with self consciousness. I put on [...]
Categories Body Image, The Art of Star Polishing, The Mind Game
(Nope, that’s not a typo in the title.) Yesterday, I spent some time with my new next-door neighbors, Michael and Calin. Michael is four years old and already a charmer with his long eyelashes and killer smile. He paid me the ultimate compliment. Unlike his sister, when his father yelled, “Frog!” Michael didn’t run off [...]
Categories Carol's Musings
Children are dying in East Africa. Every single second, innocent babies and children who did nothing wrong except get born in the wrong part of the world at the wrong time are dying because they didn’t get enough food to eat. Will you please do me a personal favor? And I say personal because it [...]
Categories Community
It’s that time of year again – my annual physical. In a few minutes, I will be hopping in the car and driving over to the medical center. I hate this time of year. It’s not that I hate the physical exam so much, although I can certainly think of a hundred other ways I [...]
Categories The Mind Game, Weight Loss
“Who the hell do you think you are?” My mother’s voice rings as loudly in my head years after her death as it rang while she was alive. Such a harsh question. “Who the hell do you think you are?” Words meant to prevent me, an only child, from becoming spoiled, too big for my [...]
Categories Personal Empowerment, The Art of Star Polishing
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