Our local Macy’s is the only place where I can’t help wishing I were fatter. They have amazing clothes in huge sizes. Maybe they do it on purpose, to make everybody feel at peace with not being thin.
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The workers at Teavana always stump me by asking, “And what brings you to our store?” I immediately begin to wonder what else can bring people to Teavana if not the desire to buy tea.
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I realized that I haven’t bought any new clothes (aside from two $20 maternity dresses) for 2,5 years. First, I was hoping to get pregnant, then I was pregnant, then I was at the stage of, “Hey, when’s the baby due?” “Three months ago!” So today was the day of my happy reunion with clothes. And I didn’t at all hate it.
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Only in America do you begin to read an autobiography of a fellow whose claim to fame is that he worked his way out of poverty, and then it turns out that the poverty he escaped from entailed an income of $100,000 per year.
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