Category Archives: D-d-dancing with myself

Pictures of you.

By Michelle | Published: May 29, 2011

If all you ever saw were daisies, being confronted with a rose might freak you out. I’m thinking today about body image. My body image, to be specific, and the way I feel when suddenly confronted with photographs of myself taken by other people, showing my whole body. The experience is one of immediate shock, [...]

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Saying goodbye to my waist.

By Michelle | Published: March 22, 2010

This is going to be a rambly, self-indulgent, stream-of-consciousness kind of post, so I apologize in advance. But it recently occurred to me that I have been in a long, gradual process of saying goodbye to my waist. I’ll explain. As a teenager, I was never thin. I passed for mostly normal (with a big [...]

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The Regent.

By Michelle | Published: January 21, 2010

This post represents one in which I talk to myself. Feel free to read or to skip. Comments on these posts are closed. My struggle with chemistry continues. It’s actually really fucking embarrassing, but I want to be up-front about it, mostly with myself.

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Feelings suck.

By Michelle | Published: November 25, 2009

I was sitting here, clicking links and doing random Google image searches, when I became aware of something in my chest. Something funny, not entirely physical, but inside. That’s when it occurred to me — I was having a feeling. It was a sad feeling. And I didn’t like that, not at all. It seemed [...]

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