Six Generations of First Born Women for Sunday, May 25, 2003

At 14 I'd won the battle of control with my parents. I'd exhausted them. School had been my sanctuary, so while my parents bemoaned my behavior, they had no quarrel with my academic achievements. I'd been on those hormone pills to bring my period back just a few months when my personal research... Sign in to see full entry.

Anorexia and bulimia were not in the popular lexicon in 1958. It was the year I turned 13. After a turbulent childhood the struggles with my mother escalated. Being a housewife, a stay at home mom, the kitchen was her seat of operations and food was used as a vehicle to control behavior. Meals where... Sign in to see full entry.