On Comfort

Traveling is so uncomfortable. Traveling while fat to talk about fatness is... more so.

I write this post while embarking on my first work trip in over three years. I am riding in a van to St. Lawrence University, about three hours away, where I’ll be giving the Kathryn Fraser Mackay Memorial Lecture this evening, and doing a mini-residency. I’m honored and delighted to be doing this. And it’s still a lot, after so long cocooning.

I should …