My Ugly Shoes

by Kym on April 19, 2011

My shoes really are ugly. Brown. Suede. Clunky. They make a loud clomp-clomp sound when I walk and the soles are thick and heavy. They are not dancing shoes. They aren’t my pretty red ballet flats with the woven in (…)

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Sometimes, You Just Gotta Dance . . .

by Kym on April 12, 2011

. . . even if you–like me–have all the grace and charm of a water buffalo with a serious case of vertigo. Sometimes, life is made of happy, and dancing is just a natural, inevitable, by-product. Do you like my (…)

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Dear Fat Me

by Kym on April 4, 2011

This is a writing exercise I recently did, as part of a new program I’ve started, and I felt impressed to share it here. I find it especially interesting how much nastier the skinny version of me is (no offense (…)

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