Tag: eating disorders

• Between What is Said and What is Heard

  

  On our drive from school the other day my tweenage son told me a classmate had offered him a joint. I’d been preparing for this moment, staging it in my head for years, ready with my bag full of allegorical stories of my reckless youth before easing into the “Why drugs are bad for you” […]

  jcafesin

  May 13, 2022

  Uncategorized

  anorexia, bulimia, cannabis, dadlife, diet, dieting, drug use, eating disorders, emotional disorder, fasting, fat, healthy eating, momlife, parenting, skinny, tweens, weed

• Food in Fiction

  

  Ever had a blind date? While women are worried the guy is a psycho-killer, most guys are worried the woman will be fat. I’ve always had a…complicated relationship with food. I grew up in the 70s and 80s, when heroin addict thin was trending chic. My mother’s favorite actress was Audrey Hepburn, because she was, […]

  jcafesin

  January 28, 2020

  addiction, Author Interview, Authors, lonely, lonliness, marriage, memoir, Romance, Romantic Read, voracious readers, Women’s Fiction, writers, Writing

  atkins, dieting, diets, dubrow, eating disorders, golo, keto, noom, sirtfood