To Find Yourself, You Must Lose Yourself
When the corners curled and the creases in the paper deepened, I painstakingly pasted the page to two sheets of black construction paper, careful not to allow the glue to bleed or bubble through....
View ArticleEating What Is Around
Lost in the beauty of the knots in the picnic tabletop, I hear a rustling beneath my feet. Two crows quietly creep close, springing over the sand on string-thin legs, foraging for food. With their...
View Article“If You Are Not Happy… Let People Know It”
Flanked by fellow classmates, kids I had yet to get to know, I remember feeling forced to pretend, even way back then. “If you’re happy, and you know it, then you really, really show it! If you’re...
View ArticleLiverwurst and Melted Cheese
Vividly, I remember sitting on the stained, hardwood floor in front of the oven, ready, waiting, wanting to eat, watching bubbles begin to stretch through the cheese over pink liverwurst softening,...
View ArticleOne Such Memory
This past summer, I tried sushi for the first time. Seated, served, concentrating on my movements, I had carefully positioned the chopsticks in my right hand, then deliberately pinched the first...
View ArticleWhen is the right time to get treatment for an eating disorder?
The other day I was speaking to a friend of mine who used to be an “eating disorder buddy”. We would overexercise, undereat and report all the facts back to each other on what the scale said. I have...
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RECOVERING FROM ANOREXIA…LIVE AND LET GO.
One of my favorite songs by Paul McCartney is “Let it be”, it actually was inspired by a dream he had about his mother who died of cancer when he was a teenager. Paul was going through a rough patch...
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