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Happy birthday to me I don’t live in a tree But I look like a primate Because I am one! Happy birthday to me! I’m 50 years old today, a fact that I’m mildly weirded out about. On the other hand, as they say, it beats the alternative. And I plan to spend my fifties [...]
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Greta’s Amazing Chocolate Pie
November 24th, 2011 
Greta Christina This is an old post from my archives, which I’m reprinting today for obvious reasons. Happy Thanksgiving! It’s been a while since I’ve done a food post here that wasn’t about weight management, and I just made this pie for my birthday, so I thought I’d share the recipe. This is a ridiculously easy, unbelievably [...]
Chocolate Chip Cookies and Cute Kittens: Compare and Contrast
November 14th, 2011 Greta Christina I’m currently working on a piece comparing the child rape scandal at Penn State with the child rape scandal in the Catholic Church. It’s making me sick and sad. Over on Facebook, I pleaded, “Can’t I write a piece comparing chocolate chip cookies with cute kittens?” And it was pointed out, by more than one [...]
I have my archives!
September 16th, 2011 Greta Christina I have my archives from my old blog! They’re here! With comments and everything! They’re even in the right categories! Images and videos didn’t make it over, and there are a handful of posts that didn’t make it and that I’ll have to put in by hand. (For some reason, it didn’t like my posts [...]
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January 10th, 2011 Greta Christina So since I was a jerk last week and posted a recipe for insanely easy, insanely delicious chocolate pie, right at the beginning of January when everyone’s resolving to eat healthier and lose weight, I thought I’d make up for it, and post this recipe for insanely easy, insanely delicious, insanely healthy soup. Although it’s [...]
Greta’s Amazing Chocolate Pie
January 3rd, 2011 It’s been a while since I’ve done a food post here that wasn’t about weight management, and I just made this pie for my birthday, so I thought I’d share the recipe. This is a ridiculously easy, unbelievably delicious recipe for chocolate pie. And it’s not just me saying so: friends have been known to [...]
Dream diary, 1/2/10: Oak Aged Scotch
January 2nd, 2011 Greta Christina I dreamed that there was a fancy, high-end Scotch that, instead of being aged in oak barrels, was aged in live oak trees that had been hollowed out specifically for this purpose. I was a little confused as to how the oak trees could survive this process, but was told that the whisky functioned like [...]
Caught Between Fat and Thin: When a Fat Acceptance Advocate Takes Off the Pounds
December 15th, 2010 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on AlterNet. I’m always going to be a fat woman. Don’t get me wrong. At five foot three and 135 pounds, I am not, by any useful definition of the word, fat. But I have been fat. I was fat for many, many years. And for years, I was an [...]
Caught Between Fat and Thin: The Pounds Come Off, But the Label Stays
December 8th, 2010 Greta Christina I’m always going to be a fat woman. Don’t get me wrong. At five foot three and 135 pounds, I am not, by any useful definition of the word, fat. But I have been fat. I was fat for many, many years. And for years, I was an ardent advocate of the fat acceptance movement. [...]
The Fat Positive Feminist Skeptical Diet, Phase 2, Part 2: How Do You Know When Enough Is Enough?
November 17th, 2010 Greta Christina This is Part 2 of a two-part post. In yesterday’s piece, I talked about the process of switching from weight loss to weight maintenance… including the strange attraction of the process of losing weight, and the challenges of letting go of that process and embracing lifelong weight management. Today, I talk about how you even [...]
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