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  • fit is fat

    I have a girl-on for Serena Williams. That girl is smart, cute, powerful and a finely tuned tennis machine. Of course I have a crush on her and so I was perusing recent pics of her and I found this: This photo com…

  • "So, are you going to be part of the first group of portraits?" Reffin' A asked over breakfast. "I don't know," I said and shifted uncomfortably in the diner booth. I stared intensely into my coffee like maybe the answ…

  • the best day of my life

    "Oh, I need a picture of this for my teaching," the doctor, whose name I never catch, says to the ultrasound tech. She turns to me, spreads some goo on my boob, and says, "This is exciting. You don't have cancer. I ca…

  • Are you concerned about your weight?

    When I don't want to communicate with the world it has a way of forcing me open. So xanga kept asking me "Are you concerned about your weight?" and it made me angry and surly and sensitive on top of all the other shit I…

  • passing

    So, I am suffering with some rather severe shin splints right now. Part of the problem is my stride--I strike with my heel. I also have seriously low arches. What was pain while I run has turned into pain while I am wa…

  • a small revolution

    When I go to the beach I always marvel at how every woman there looks beautiful. I don't mean the wee teenagers, or rather I do, but not just them. When I go to the beach I see women in a huge range of sizes from barel…

  • for BH, who does not even know this exists

    Because I have been afflicted with a brutal case of ambition, I am trying to get my regular run up to five miles. That has been my goal for almost two years. I'm finally ready to do it. So Monday and Tuesday I came ho…

  • Companionship

    In the Target parking lot, late last night after work, a man in an old Jaguar convertible pulled up behind me and said, "Excuse me?""Yeah," I said."I just wanted to tell you," he says in a polite, even voice, "you have a…

  • dressing room

    In ninth grade art class, we had to do self portraits. When we lined them up against the wall, this very popular and smart boy, B.S. looked at mine and asked, "Who's that?"I didn't say anything. I looked at Sarafina, m…

  • There's a special way that we see ourselves in the mirror. It's not objective but it's not entirely innacurate, it's just unflattering.When I look in the mirror I inspect my face for every zit, every soon to be zit. an…

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