How To Recognize a Dating App Scammer
The ways I detect a fake dating app profile with a scammer behind it.
Middle-Aged, Divorced, Trying to Date
There’s a version of my life that died back in 2013 and I haven’t grieved it. It’s time to grieve it.
Think Before You Message About Racism
When racist violence prompts you to reach out to a person of color, a better gesture might be to send that outraged text to a white person.
I Have Seen The Light and It Is Awful
Realizing there’s more to existence didn’t cause gratitude. It’s been kind of horrible.
Belly Fat Burner Drink
This drink got my body to increase its resting metabolism in three weeks, but it was tailored for me specifically.
McCombs Candida Plan – So How Did It Go?
The McCombs Candida Plan takes care of an insidious health problem, but how does it feel?
My Wheat-Free Life, Part 1
I’ve stopped eating anything that contains or is coated with wheat flour because wheat gives me stomach aches and I don’t like pain.
Middle Age Priorities — Now I Get It
When I was in my teens my mother was several years younger than I am now (I'm 54). As a high school student, I was at the beginning of my career as a woman who cares about her appearance while my mother was getting towards the end of hers. We lived in California so it...
Wars of the Buttercream Roses
Well, the McCombs Candida Plan is effectively over. The last part of it is that I'm supposed to stay off dairy products until Feb. 21st, but actually I’m eating whatever I want at this point and it's not good. Since Juldmort my anxiety level gradually lessened until...
Releasing Another Layer (Cake)
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan Day 53 I've been on the 16-week (112-day) McCombs Candida Plan for 71 days and yesterday I completely rebelled by buying a Pepperidge Farm frozen cake and trying to eat it (after thawing it, of course). But a strange...
Know about publishing?
In autumn 2012 I had had such a bizarre and frustrating experience of dog ownership that I used National Novel Writing Month to draft a memoir of what I'd been through the previous year with a pitbull mix mutt named Ozzie. Since then my manuscript has evolved to...
McCombs Candida Plan: Day 53
Previous post on this topic: McCombs Candida Plan: Day 29 Read about this adventure from the beginning. Yes, I'm still on Dr. Jeffrey McCombs' Candida Plan, taking McComb’s supplements, drinking four quarts of water a day, taking sweat baths, and eating only animal...