Creative Fat Grrl

Creative Fat Grrl was a name I invented for myself when I wrote a web column for Lockergnome. I was looking for something that felt like me, not one of the bright, trendy and excitable young people who create energetic YouTube video posts on the side. It was something I could live up to without feeling left out. I kept it going for a couple of years. The name still works for creative arts sort of posts. Most of the posts in this category will be written for that column or others.

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Stop Preying on Women

I’m almost 50 and I don’t care about looking youthful. I feel good and that is what matters. I also look good and the few lines around my eyes don’t bother me one bit. Stop preying on women and making us feel we have to look twenty until we die. I look like a woman who has been alive awhile, not some store mannequin.

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Old Maids and Spinsters?

I never watched the show, Sex and the City, but over time I’ve heard or found quotes which make me think.

  • Why do we get stuck with old maid and spinster and men get to be bachelors and playboys?
  • It’s amazing. In a courtroom, reasonable doubt can get you off for murder. In an engagement, it makes you feel like a bad person.
  • I just realized… maybe it’s maturity or the wisdom that comes with age, but the witch in Hansel and Gretel — she’s very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house, and these brats come along and start eating it.

Fight Dream Hope Love

les miserables
I read Les Miserables last year. It was a long book. I am writing a review of the book on Squidoo and found this wallpaper while looking for images to post. I like the words at the top. Inspiring for me as I try to make changes to myself and get back to running my sites again.

I started swimming at the YMCA, once a week so far.

My Mother is an Extrovert

How do you deal with an extrovert when you are an introvert feeling drained of everything and yet still being given lists of more stuff to do as if you are a bottomless well unable to run dry?

I’m an introvert. The bus is one of my favourite things to do because you can be out of the house and lose yourself completely for an hour without having to do anything at all. No matter what the bus will go along and eventually take you back to where you started from.