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Thin Think Tuesday: Cucumbersome Insecurities
I mentioned my self-image yesterday as a contributing factor to my exhaustion. As some of you might know, but most don’t, I’ve had Body Dysmorphic Disorder since I was very young. Never heard of it?...
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Just a little Bellycaking about work….
Remember when I said work was nuts but looking to calm down? I totally and completely lied. Cancer studies are overwhelming in startup. I mean OVERWHELMING. But it’s all for a good cause right? I...
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In for a penny, in for a pound…cake
I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between. I suffer sometimes from serious indecision. It’s not often that I...
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The Breast Dressed Geeks: Heroes of Cosplay
I like to get dressed up silly costumes and run around pretending to be someone I’m not—and I like to do it on days other than just October 31st and not [just] for kinky bedroom This passion? It’s...
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How to care without going coconuts
Something that many of us will have to deal with in our lifetimes is the care of a sick loved one. I don’t just mean like when your kid gets the chickenpox—I’m talking debilitating, life altering...
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SciFriday: Slutshame me and I’ll give you Frost-bite
Hooray for Heroes of Cosplay! Have you been watching? It’s been getting fairly even handed reviews thus far which makes me happy, not just because I love Holly Conrad, but because I love Cosplay....
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Change keeps Pie-ling up
A good rule of thumb that I’ve always followed is “don’t blog about work”. Traditionally I’ve only ever shared the most minor details about my job, and only ever positive remarks, because you never...
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Getting good Karmal
Welcome to the Karma Café: there are no menus. You’ll get served what you deserve. Or do you? BY THE WAY: while the pun still stands please note that the proper way to say caramel is not CAR-mull....
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Meatless Monday: Breaking Fast
“Olivia—I think you need to forgive yourself.” Over the weekend was Yom Kippur – one of the holiest days in Judaism. It is a day for reflection, prayer, introspection and most importantly a day to...
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Meatless Monday: Have a Rice Day
It’s been a rough week, no month, er months? Try year. It’s been a rough year. I set out for 2013 to have a theme: balance. Apparently my definition of balance is how the world looks to someone...
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Catch her in the rye-bread
Feels like I’m fiddling while Rome is burning down Should I put my fiddle down, take a rifle from the ground God give me strength to pray that You will set things right ’cause I’m paralyzed, I’m...
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Java little bit of your love
So give a little bit Give a little bit of your time to me See the man with the lonely eyes Take his hand, you’ll be surprised I almost completely forgot that this Friday is going to be Valentine’s...
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Wellness Wednesday: My Saladdiction
I haven’t known really how to share this. It’s a hard thing to talk about. It’s hard because not only do I have my own struggles with the shame and embarrassment but because I am often met with...
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Sweetening the chocolate-chip on my shoulder
Privilege is a hard word to discuss. Reactions range from ignorance to passionate HULK RAGED soapboxes. Some people can’t seem to stop talking about it and others seem to have a knee jerk, opposing...
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Meatless Monday: I’m not cheap, I’m just Kugel
I’ve written in the past about growing up Jew-ish and how Judaism is not just a religion, and it isn’t a race, it’s a culture. Now despite how I will protest a million times over about how you can’t...
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My Cakey Breaky Car
Dreaming of the siren Wishing for broken glass on the highway It could be so easy So. That’s what a car accident is like. I had an entirely different post that I intended to write for today. I also...
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A dish best served cold….
HERE BE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS FOR THE NEW SEASON: Justice, revenge or retribution? Which of these is really okay and which makes us less than human? A Song of Ice and Fire (or simply Game of...
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