Chances are, you recognize that schoolyard chant. Maybe you were the target, or maybe it was someone else. It doesn’t really matter now, does it?
Except, perhaps, for the lifelong damage such taunting can do to a developing self-esteem.
Which is one of the reasons parents in the Denver Public School District are outraged over the administration’s [...]

I wrote earlier about just how few calories are burned per hour whilst sitting at the computer. At the time, I hoped my body would comprehend the link between the minimal calories burned and the number of calories it seems to demand.
No such luck.
I’ve reached the point where even two “slimming shakes” per day and [...]

In the 10 years that I’ve known him, my husband’s weight has never deviated by more than 5 pounds. Not once. Not even with a nightly routine of eating a half-gallon of ice cream topped with hot fudge sauce and a quarter cup of brown sugar. (Really.) Not during the holiday season when he washes [...]

Not long ago, I found myself in the middle of reading a newspaper article about some new diet supplement that’s supposed to be an all-natural way to effortlessly lose weight.
Riiiight, I figured, and my BS-detector went into hyper drive. The byline, Universal Media Syndicate, sounded legitimate enough but the language was so over-the-top that [...]

Thanks to a migraine, my only exercise yesterday involved shaking a few Excedrin out of the bottle. I figure I burned less than a calorie at that, but fortunately the accompanying nausea meant I only ate a bowl of oatmeal (and even that didn’t stay down).
I feel much better this morning, though. No, I haven’t [...]

I had an appointment early this morning, which meant that I was up, showered and out the door while my husband and son were still fast asleep. It also meant that by the time I came home, they were both waking up at the same time. So I left my husband to find breakfast for [...]

Next July, my husband and I will be celebrating our 10th anniversary, and this time, we’re going to do it in style.
We’ve never really been big on exchanging anniversary gifts. For our first anniversary — the paper one — we exchanged Tom Clancy novels. On our second anniversary, the Cotton one, we picked up a [...]