by Lauren Slayton | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Sitting at my desk Monday, I scrambled to contact clients and friends in Boston. I tried to calculate who had likely finished before the horrific bombing and hoped everyone was ok. I texted a friend and prayed that with a day off from school she and her kids were not...
by Lauren Slayton | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Friday, on Facebook, a friend posted this ad from the JC Penny circular. This particular image comes from the company Joe Fresh. Her comment “jumping off the page is a young girl whose legs look like someone from a concentration camp. I AM APPALLED THAT COMPANIES...
by Lauren Slayton | Apr 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Image via the tech savvy Carolyn Brown I have a deep side. I worry about important things (they will come to me soon) but like my shadow, my “shallow” is always with me.. For most women a few pounds in either direction can make a difference, more of a difference than...
by Lauren Slayton | Apr 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bulletproof coffee photo via weightlossguru.com, keep forgetting to take my own Saturday, while getting a haircut, I flipped through a magazine. I wouldn’t suggest this diversion as a lot of cutting occurred as I read probably because I was annoyed with a...
by Lauren Slayton | Apr 4, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I go to the store and buy wild salmon, the fishmonger weighs the salmon and affixes a price tag based on how much I buy. The same per pound system goes for apples, potatoes and nuts from the bulk bins. I’m not thrilled about it but when traveling, our ginormous...
by Lauren Slayton | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Many more “girls” look like this than any Victoria’s Secret model I don’t read Playboy, I’m not informed enough to know whether people do “read” Playboy but I read an interview they did with Lena Dunham. In this piece, she is asked what she would do...
