Chicana on the Edge

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On Thanksgiving…

I am grateful to feel grateful at all. This has been a very hard year even though Bob and I weren't even dealing with a financial crisis or losing a home or anything like that. But obviously major surgery causes its own kind of stress. My depression depleted my...

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On the Tenth Day of Thanksgiving…

Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. I'm grateful for Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming (EMDR)....

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On the Eighth Day of Thanksgiving…

Disclaimer: since I became properly obese, I re-read these old posts and see my body dysmorphia and self-hatred and obsession with food and weight. It's sad. I'm grateful that I've finally started to lose the twelve pounds I put on over my awful, wretched summer of...

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On the Seventh Day of Thanksgiving…

I'm grateful for being an American. I never felt this way until I left the country for the first time in my life and finally used a passport at the age of 44. I went to Peru and Bolivia. There I saw what my life could have been if my grandparents hadn't hauled...

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On the Fifth Day of Thanksgiving…

I'm grateful for my new cell phone. This is why I have a new cell phone: In 2006, my husband's company began paying for his cell phone. In 2008, they got him a BlackBerry. I was so envious, I insisted that we get me a BlackBerry, too. We could afford it, since we...

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On the Second Day of Thankgiving..

I am grateful for my hard-won friends. It hasn't been easy to build such a strong network. Making friends gets harder as one gets older, plus many of us have had to figure out how to be a good friend through trial and error. I think my parents were part of a...

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Twelve Days of Thanksgiving

On the first day of Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for my physical body. Yes, the contents have shifted a bit and I've had to let go of the dream of one day, one day, finally whipping myself into swimsuit shape, but here's the best part about my body: I go through most...

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Halloween Wins

Images of Halloween invoke death, decay and the unknown. They're the taboo subjects that spooked us as over-imaginative children and that we'll fear again as we get close to our own physical collapse. But the reason Halloween is my second favorite celebration is that...

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Halloween Is for Scairdy Cats

I'm drawn to horror stories, horror movies and all things dark. When I was seven years old and first learned to read, I started with the ghost story books at the library. I kept going until I had read every ghost story book for my age group in the place. In my teens I...

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Halloweeny

Halloweeny

I love that ComEd (Chicago electric company) is using Halloween-themed ads like this one. We get plenty of Christmas-themed ads every year. It's about time Halloween got more exploitation. Yay, Halloween!

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