by KimBoo York | Jul 12, 2021 | Ponderings
I was futzing around online the other day and watched a video on ancient Rome by Mary Beard. It was, as most of her shows are, very enjoyable. Her love for the topic shines, and she’s as delighted as a child with candy when she can hold an ancient artifact or walk...
by KimBoo York | Feb 29, 2020 | Ponderings
Throwing Beauty Away “Being attractive to men comes with an entire host of social and sexual pressure that I just am not looking to invite.” The above quote is from a friend’s FB post, I think — I saved the snippet without attribution (bad writer!...
by KimBoo York | Nov 26, 2016 | Life and all That
This entry is part [part not set] of 130 in the series Blog-a-Day2016I once worked a shitty job with a woman who was an out-of-work model. That’s very literally the case, this is not me being poetically descriptive: she was a model who was in between jobs and...
by KimBoo York | Mar 12, 2015 | Life and all That
Recently a friend of mine posted about a lot of weight she had lost and her improved health/bloodwork after starting a new way of eating (or WOE, for short). It doesn’t matter which WOE she used, here – Weight Watchers, Mediterranean, the Zone, Atkins, LCHF, whatever,...
by KimBoo York | Jan 10, 2015 | Life and all That, Ponderings
Body dysmorphia is more than “not seeing reality in the mirror”, in fact, it’s a far more holistic disorder than that. I’m not sure I clinically suffer from it, but the symptoms resonate with my experience: Preoccupation with your physical...
