Recently Weight Watchers announced plans to offer a free six-week program to teenagers aged 13-17 this coming summer. As someone who made four trips to Weight Watchers before the age of 18, then seven more up until 38, I have thoughts on this topic. Part of me wants to believe that Weight Watchers had good […]
If I had an American dollar for every tear I’ve leaked in the past couple of days, we’d be able to set up the Shauna Memorial Tears And Snot Scholarship to help thousands of people come here to Green Mountain at Fox Run. I’d figured after 30+ years on the diet/binge hamster wheel there’d be […]
Last night I went snowshoeing in the woods. It was the eve of G’s 60th birthday, one of my favourite peeps here. She asked a bunch of us if we’d join her for a nocturnal adventure. “Suuuure!” I said. Then the excuses charged in. You know, it’s getting late and I’ve not done this before […]
It’s only been a couple of days here at Green Mountain at Fox Run and already my brain is a merry burble of insights and inspiration. Not to mention an epiphany tear or two. Luckily there seems to be a strategically placed box of tissues in every room. They anticipate everything! The following is rather messy, […]
This is the gorgeous view from my window for the next few weeks! I’m at Green Mountain at Fox Run* retreat in the snowy mountains of Vermont. Late last summer, I was exploring support options for working on my binge eating shiz and plotting a way forward from decades of dieting. I wasn’t finding anything […]
The urge to go north was strong. I hadn’t been back to Inverness since we moved at the end of 2015, so recently I popped up for an overnight visit. The train ride up is a treat in winter. Cop a load of these views! They are blurry, but hopefully you can feel the love. […]
Happy new year, comrades! Here’s the ninth annual instalment of Review Thingo. Previous episodes: 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009. 1. What did you do in 2017 that you’d never done before? Went to Seattle Spent a night in a yurt Watched Back To The Future 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for this year? I […]
During the summer my friend Helen got one of those DNA test things. After she gleefully told me what percentage Neanderthal she was (while pretending to drag her knuckles down the street), I decided to mail off my own test tube o’ saliva. The results revealed that I’m likely to have red hair, dark eyes, pale […]
Fun facts about author Keris Stainton, as nicked from her website: she’s been telling stories all her life, but didn’t write a novel until 2004 during NaNoWriMo Bob Geldof once called her “dogmatic” a Harry Styles dream she had in 2014 led to an ongoing One Direction obsession she has written 14 books (as per […]
