Math on a Plate

I love math, and I loved teaching it. I told my students, “It is the only thing in the world that makes sense.” If you do it right, the answer is utterly predictable.  There’s a fairness to it:  if you lighten one side of an equation, you must lighten the other. ...

My Weighty Weight

” If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight.  The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss,and I do not know which talk is the more boring.” – Marya Mannes“I dread going to the party,” I told Teri.  “I haven’t seen those...

Water Aerobics at the Y

It came to me this image:  the dancing hippos in the Disney movie Fantasia, as they rose from the water, buoyant and graceful, unapologetic and delighted.  dressed in tasteful tutus and ballet shoes.Yes, this is the image that flashed in my mind as I scanned the...

Do these chopsticks make me look fat?

  The sight of Mt. Fuji filled me with dread.  It was going to be another fat-shaming experience in the Land of the Rising Sun and the Small Bottoms.  ‘ My husband pretended not to notice that, with the exception of Sumo wrestlers, I was the broadest-beamed...

Weighing In: My Body of Work

You’ve seen it.  The groom takes a piece of wedding cake and smashes it into the perfectly made up face of his bride.  This is the message:  Ladies will not eat unless they are force fed. Stop fast-forwarding past the commercials, and you’ll see men scarfing pizza,...

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