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welcome to the april 30, 2007 edition of carnival of eating disorders. this time, because things have been a bit hectic around here, i am going to present you the “predigested” version. in the next few days, i will discuss the articles in a bit more detail. RT presents interview with diet girl from the [...]

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yup. that’s him. little julian. all 10 pds 10 oz, and 22″ of him! 33 days of on and off labour, 30 hours of final labour, and then he had to be hauled out via caesarian. julian and both parents are happy and healthy. the support and love from everyone was – oh, i don’t [...]

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april is poetry month.  in the spirit of my grandmotherly ramblings, i’m posting this one, which i wrote remembering the time my son and i spent in chile:

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“i am equal to this challenge.” this is another of eric maisel’s twelve incantations. i have to confess that initially i was a bit sceptic of his book ten zen seconds (“is this going to be yet another book that uses the word “zen” in vain?) but the more time i spend with it, the [...]

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it’s time for another gues post by my assistant, alex. she’s a young woman who looks at the “thin fad” from a different perspective. what is it like to be thin? i am 5’5” and exactly 100 pounds. all around me there is the constant reminder of how lucky i am to have the body [...]

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julian. it’s not quite clear what that name means. it could mean “downy-bearded”, or it could relate to the highest roman god, jupiter, the equivalent of the greek god zeus. whatever it is, it’s a darn good name. and the name of the baby-to-come! yes, we know the gender now! yesterday, i accompanied mindemoya on [...]

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in collaboration and partnership with the maui community, his holiness, the 14th dalai lama, will have the entire world as his audience as part of a realtime webcast of his public appearances on the island of maui on april 24 and 25, 2007. with broadband computer access, you can see and hear the dalai lama [...]

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an abandoned locomotive in panama i’m one of those people who can react quite emotionally to certain images. this

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what do you think when you hear the word “kiddie porn”? you’re probably disgusted. however, you also hear the words “kiddie” (sounds a bit like “kitten”, doesn’t it?) and “porn”, which is an abbreviation of “pornography”, an abbreviation that does not only make the word sound shorter but also somehow abbreviates the whole idea. the [...]

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this morning i was looking for internet references to my favourite parenting book, liberated parents, liberated children. back when i was facilitating parents’ groups, i used it as the basis of two courses. what struck me suddenly was that this book is about much more than “just” parenting (as if that wasn’t enough!) – it’s [...]

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yesterday was my daughter mindemoya’s due day, and it’s been three weeks since she’s been having on-and-off contractions. baby, come out! we all want to meet you! in the meantime, mindemoya’s getting bigger and bigger. how is this possible?!? she’s attached to this massive belly and all she can do is waddle. she moves from [...]

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“i am free of the past” this is one of the “incantations” found in eric maisel’s new book, ten zen seconds. in this book, dr. maisel suggests combining incantations with breathing techniques, and in this way to find one’s center. his ideas are useful for everyone but particularly for artists – dr. maisel works predominantly [...]

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today is holocaust remembrance day. the biggest shooting in US history just happened. 33 people are dead. my brain is trying to cope with this, to make sense of it, so i take flight into my safe cocoon, the internet. i post about it on twitter and on stumbleupon. that is safe. it’s just in [...]

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a while ago, one of our commenters referred to depression as “the big valley” and “heaven and hell.” referring to medication for depression, he also said that “there are no revealed mysteries in micrograins of medicine.” in order to be “close to free”, he “had to do it without buffers. It has been hard, but [...]

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this morrning, my twitter friend geisharei sent a link to alice, a chatterbot that’s being worked on by A.L.I.C.E., the artiificial intelligence foundation. i engaged alice in this (rather bizarre) conversation. (hint: i’m Human) try it for yourself! Human: do chatterbots get distracted? ALICE: You have reached the limits of my knowledge. Have you tried [...]

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