Category: Anne Lamott

• 70 is the new awesome

  Tomorrow morning, to paraphrase Anne Lamott’s birthday column opener, I’m going to wake up 70 years old (9 years older than she). I am delighted that 1) I will most likely wake up; and 2) I will be at least 30 pounds lighter than on my 69th birthday. I’ve worked really hard on this; in fact, for…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  July 23, 2015

  Aging, Anne Lamott, Emotional side of weight loss, Exercise, Keeping track of what we eat, Restaurant eating while dieting, Seniors and weight loss, Sugar in the diet, Uncategorized, Weight loss, Working out

  binging, healthy eating, nutrition, obesity, weight loss

• And then…

  Anne Lamott describing her usual Sunday School class for youngsters in Stitches: “Then we pray to try to be good and kind to one another. We read a short passage of Scripture, talk about it and try to learn something together about our lives and God’s love. And then, as in all great religious traditions, we…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  March 1, 2014

  Anne Lamott, Breakfast-brunch, Cake, Celebrations, Desserts, Southern food

  Daleville VA, Deep-fried Oreos, restaurant eating, Stitches, Sweet potato fries, Three Little Pigs Barbecue

• Tubby oldsters and slimmed-down broccoli soup

  When I repeated something I’d read about never seeing any old fat people, Stoic the Helpful suggested, “Santa Claus.” OK, besides a really fat and really old guy with a Downton Abbey-worthy household staff, who else? Anybody? Anybody not on a walker because of their abused old knees or hips? I can’t think of anyone;…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  January 20, 2014

  Anne Lamott, Lunch, Soup, vegetables, Weight loss

  broccoli, broccoli and cheese soup, cheese, Jesse Knadler, Potatoes, Rurally Screwed, Tart & Sweet

• A foggy day

  A beautiful light in this world has dimmed. She was about the age of my oldest daughter, cared about the world — there are so many reasons why this is truly horrid. And I don’t really know what to do with my feelings if I can’t lie abed with books, food and drink. But I…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  December 4, 2013

  Anne Lamott, Emo eating, Food addiction, Handling loss without eating

  alcoholism, over-eating, Stitches, The Helmand Baltimore, weight loss

• Anne Lamott; salmon patties

  Anne Lamott said many memorable things Sunday in Charlotte’s Christ Episcopal Church on a golden gingko-leaved fall afternoon. What I heard (meaning remember ) is that she didn’t want to be a model of “victimized superiority” (I know some of those dreary people), that she’s fairly certain among the things Jesus frequently says to her is…

  JoAnn Rhodes Grose

  November 13, 2013

  Anne Lamott, Fish, Seniors and weight loss, Starting over, Weight loss

  Christ Episcopal Charlotte, healthy eating, obesity, over-eating, salmon, self-image, Stitches