i started writing the introduction to my eating disorder book about seven years ago. mind you, i hadn’t started organizing my writing at all, and I had more than half to write still, but i wanted to tackle the into. i’d come up with a book title and an opening sentence that i thought were brilliant. i used that to delve into the rest of the introduction. i wrote, refined, wrote, refined, wrote and refined some more. imagine my shock when a couple years later, someone published a book with a very similar title. ( Read more )
Archive for July, 2010
Jul
21
“ode to my recovery dog”
today is my dog’s 10th birthday (happy birthday shaka)! naturally, i had to pen a piece for him. here is my latest psychology today piece titled “ode to my recovery dog”. it contains pictures of my ridiculously cute canine. i probably have more pictures of him than anyone needs to have of a dog, so i limited myself to four pictures. i’m in a couple of them with hairstyles quite different to my current style. but, if you’ve read my huffington post piece “good hair wars”, you wouldn’t be surprised. 
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Jul
07
food eating contests
while i know there’s been a lot of footage of one of the usual food eating contestants being banned and then arrested, i’ve tried to avoid watching the clips. why? ( Read more )
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Jul
05
editing – again
i’ve been working on this piece for a long time. a couple days ago, I finished edit #9. I was sure it was in shape for me to submit it. yep, I edited it, incorporated the edits, and was going to send it in without re-reading it.
I am so glad I didn’t leave it at that. i’m reading it right now and shocked by how many uh-ohs I’ve made. ( Read more )
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