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Usually when someone wants to take a photo of me, I cringe--I always hate seeing pictures of myself! It's very rare that I look at one and think, "Hmm, not bad." But last night, when I had THE BEST reunion with my childhood bunk-mates from camp last night I had no choice--there was lots of reminiscing and picture-taking going on. As I was posing with my friends, I decided to use a little trick I recently learned from celebrity photographer Patrick McMullan--the "skinny pose."

The party-going shutterbug confided that anyone can look thinner and more comfortable in photos by just angling your legs and body away from the camera, making your shoulders square, and letting your feelings come through! I thought it worked--do you?

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I think the year was 1999 when this regrettable beauty movement swept our nation--or at least the Northeastern region I was living in. My college friends and I would twist the top of our hair into thin quasi-cornrows, securing them with mini claw clips (also referred to as butterfly clips), often arranging them in mix-and-match color schemes.

Advanced followers of the trend, like myself, would often coordinate the colors of their mini claw clips with holidays; on the Fourth of July, I might alternate red, white and blue clips. For a St. Pats' Day pub crawl--you got it, green and white clips. We'd drive out to Wal-Mart to stock up on the claw clips, since it naturally offered an expansive selection (including mini-mini claw clips that were so small you practically needed tweezers to operate them).

The look would have been cute on kids, but we were 20 years old. Sad. No photographic evidence of this phase in my hair life exists (that's probably for the best), and this is the

We've talked a lot about the cost of providing oneself with nutritious food choices, but never before has this been more apparent than this weekend. I was in Utah, which I regularly forget is mostly desert.

I had offered to make dinner one night, so off we went to a regular suburban grocery store with a list of essentials. I was planning a peasant-y autumn meal, but wanted to amp up the vitamin content of the meat and potatoes meal, so I grabbed an organic spring lettuce mix and a largish butternut squash.

The groceries for the meal cost $90, and while granted, one of the things I bought was a $5 bottle of almond extract, I also didn't need to buy things like olive oil or red wine vinegar that were needed for the salad dressing.

The shocker of the trip was that butternut squash, which ended up being $8.70! Um, hello, isn't squash in season right now? Two weeks ago at my own local farmer's market, I bought a similarly sized squash for $1.25. Of course, I live in an area of the

Kim suffers through the trials and tribulations of trying on clothes...but emerges triumphant!

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The gourds are just coming out of the woodwork, and the time for savory, hot, delicious meals is settling in and getting ready to stick around. While it is still a pleasure to enjoy chilly winds and longer nights and knee-high boots and the desire for hot and filling foods, why not celebrate with a pie that takes advantage of this time of year? The kitchn's got an easy to throw together, and super-healthy, squash, rosemary and tofu pie (that's even easier if you buy a pre-made crust). The autumny flavors sound perfect right about now. And then how about a hot lunch? The leftovers are easily heated up for a meal that's a couple notches up from your standard pb&j.

And after dinner comes dessert: Try this super easy recipe that turns into a delicious breakfast in the morning.

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Photo Credit: AFP/Prakash MathemaWhen Crabkid one day turns to me and expresses sufferings real and imagined from childhood, I'm well prepared with my responses: "at least you weren't a Chinese gymnast." Not to mention a Hindu goddess.

Yesterday Nepal anointed a 3-year-old girl, Matani Shakya, a "kumari" or living goddess. The deal is that Matani must now leave her parents and go and live in virtual isolation in a Katmandu temple until she menstruates, at which point she loses her divine status and is replaced by another living goddess.

To become a kumari is tricky. A panel of judges evaluates 2-4-year-olds,, and according to this AP article the process is as follows:

As you well know, I've been struggling recently with the mental hurdles that resurfaced when I started visiting a nutritionist.

I'm feeling better about myself now, especially after kicking so much ass in the Lazy Waister Triathlon (and I'm very positive that I will reach my goal in this next 30 Minute Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge, which you too can join, because it starts today and it's not too late to sign up!), and when I was walking into work this morning, carrying my breakfast in one hand and a low glycemic coffee, I was feeling the muscles in my thighs being all happy and ready to run.

My ten days of traveling knocked me off my feet, as it usually does, but I've never before felt my energy return so quickly, and I can only believe that it's due to the increased stamina caused by regular exercise. So I'm focusing on that, rather than hating my gut for defying the airplane tray tables. And then I read a blog post from Shoshie that was so eerily similar to my own predicament