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Last week, it turns out, was National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.  Until I read about it later on Huffington Post’s lifestyle page, I was not aware of this awareness event, but that doesn’t matter, because I’m always aware of eating disorders.

They’re everywhere. I’m not just talking about the classics, good ol’ anorexia and bulimia.  That’s way too narrow a definition. There are so many different ways for someone’s eating to be dis-ordered.  As in, messed up.

I can count on one hand, two lady fingers, and a chicken wing the number of women I know who don’t have some kind of weird shit around food. Read the rest of this entry »

Fact: Old ladies love free food samples. Actually, it doesn’t have to be food. They’ll take anything that’s free, including those stinky soap samples they hand out outside Sabon. You can always use more soap!  But they like food the best.

Is it a fixed income thing? A scarcity mentality left over from the Great Depression? No, I think it’s a natural part of aging.  Maybe something that you can ward off with lots of broccoli and salmon. But for these people, too late. Read the rest of this entry »