Life is full of those embarrassing moments. And they are even more embarrassing when they are caught on video, compounded by thousands when they go viral. Sometimes a person is lucky enough to have had the worst embarrassing moments before the Internet was born. I remember hearing about a woman who made her living as a diet guru, giving seminars on diet and nutrition. From what I remember, she had gained some weight and had gone to a conference …
About twenty-five years ago, late at night, I stopped in at a restaurant that offered foods that were billed as health foods. It was one of those informal places that had a stripped down version of tables and chairs and you could either eat there or take your food with you in paper bags. As I said, it was late at night. I was the only customer and there was only one employee and as she was wrapping up my …
I think I was born too soon. I lived in an era of home cooked meals; fast foods had not yet come into existence so I didn’t know that I was being deprived of the joy of eating greasy, unhealthy foods. When they finally made it into our culture, I was already a grown woman and too set in my ways of wanting nutritious meals. But no adult fully escapes the fast food experience for long and, when it came, …