Bottle Cap Art

I have decided to make Bottle Cap art, in the form of refrigerator magnets, for my friends and loved ones for Christmas.

I SHOULD be spending every waking moment working on my thesis.

I have begun following Pema Chodron. I think it is fair to say that between the wise woman who offered Pema to me when I was bleeding to death, and Pema herself, my life has been saved.

This blog MAY chronicle some of what is going on in my life.

I am 49.5 years old. I weigh 301 pounds. And, that is a good thing. I do not have a scale in my house, but I know when my weight changes. I can feel it in my clothes, I can feel it in my body. I have lost about 50 pounds since I moved here in 2002. But I lost 40 pounds and gained most of it back before I lost it again this time.

I do not remember a time when I was not FAT. When I look back at some pics of me as a child, I did not look that fat, but I felt it. And I was the fattest kid in school, and the fattest kid among any group of cousins I played with, and I was the fattest of two children in the house where I grew up.