Falcon Storm's Blog, page 149
June 4, 2019
My campaign to ban ads for slimming clubs and weight loss products near kids #FreeFromDiets
I try really hard to make my home a space free from diet chat and negative body talk. It wasn’t always this way, but the moment my (then) 5 year old asked why I was weighing spinach was a wake-up call.
Although I’d never been to a slimming or weight loss club, I’d spent many years of my adult life dabbling in diets – yo-yoing on and off the restriction bandwagon telling myself I was on a “health kick”, when it was actually about losing weight and changing my shape, nothing to do with my ...
January 30, 2019
Into the Multiverse
Into the Multiverse I’m going to let you in on a little secret today. I died almost 20 years ago. No, this isn’t one of those dead for three minutes and revived type stories. You see I had been sick for some time. Not like long-suffering cancer type sickness, just a really bad flu/cold/what-have-you. My temperature […]
April 9, 2018
The Many Worlds of Weirdness
I’m going to let you in on a little secret today. I died almost 20 years ago. No, this isn’t one of those dead for three minutes and revived type stories. You see I had been sick for some time. Not like long-suffering cancer type sickness, just a really bad flu/cold/what-have-you. My temperature was spiking […]
April 2, 2018
The Risen
Now, you might be wondering where I’ve been for the past two weeks. Or you might be wondering what type of drugs are in the filling of Cadbury Crème Eggs that make them both disgusting AND addictive. Now I wish I could tell you that I accidentally stumbled across a nest of Harpies (commonly referred […]
March 12, 2018
Into the Mind of Madness
Ahh March, the month of madness. And Ides. But not snakes apparently. And every year, they trot out the same wee little ginger elf known as the leprechaun. I could go on and on about the issues with the crazed marshmallow cereal hucksters, but that’s honestly part of the plan. You see, we didn’t create […]
March 5, 2018
When Gods Walk Amongst Us
When I was much younger, I went by another name. I lived a different life. I was ignorant of the world and who I really was. Ignorance—as they say—is bliss. Around the age of fourteen, I stumbled across an old man camping in the woods near my house. I really didn’t think much of it, […]
February 28, 2018
Hello world!
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February 26, 2018
The Man in the Mountain
Winter in Alaska is a dangerous time. Okay, that’s a gross understatement, and if I were to detail out the various ways that winter in Alaska is dangerous I’d end up with a book instead of a newsletter. So if you aren’t really sure that Alaska is dangerous in winter, I’d recommend some crazy “reality […]
February 19, 2018
Dangerous Dragons
I asked in the Storm Cellar Dweller group on Facebook (if you aren’t there, why not?) and the responses for what I should cover this week was pretty one-sided. So with that in mind, I’d like to tell you the secret of the San Diego Zoo. Some of you may be familiar with the life hack of dressing […]
February 12, 2018
Valentine’s VD
There are few things in this world more inexplicable than love. It’s why there is a thriving romance novel industry out there. But what is slightly more… erm, plicable is cupid. Cupid’s depiction as the son of Aphrodite or a fat baby angel or whatever is close to the truth, but still very…cleansed of the […]
