Friends Don’t Let Friends Get Brazilians
Guest columnist Ima Hurting tells about her “Brazilian adventure”–her quest to avoid bikini-line maintenance–in this brilliant humor essay.
Guest columnist Ima Hurting tells about her “Brazilian adventure”–her quest to avoid bikini-line maintenance–in this brilliant humor essay.
BetsyG lost 15 pounds when taking the Alli pill, and the weight kept falling off after she stopped taking it. Read about how that happened in this piece, which also provides fascinating insight into what BetsyG eats.
This is part 1 of a three-part series, in which BetsyG talks about her positive experience with the Alli weight-loss program. Here she talks about her recent weight gain, and how it inspired her to try the Alli program.
When BetsyG’s perimenopausal symptoms went out of control, she turned to an unlikely cure: the Mirena IUD. In this article, she looks at why she tried Mirena and talks about the outcome.

BetsyG likes to write even more than she likes to talk. Her essays have been published in the Boston Globe Magazine. She has children who would be horrified to be associated with her and her blogazine. BetsyG is a happy divorcée and, suffering from a bad case of arrested development, has no idea how old she really is; her deluded belief is that she's your age, whatever it may be.