Oh, that this too too solid flesh …

I fairly frequently make reference to my size. This is a self-image problem, and goes all the way back to my childhood, when I was, not to put too fine a point upon it, fat.

Perhaps not like today’s fat kids; more like much fatter than the others kids. If you were to take a gink at the little slideshow of family photos, you’d see in the one captioned ‘5 daughters in order (for once)’ that my arms are much wider than all my sisters’. But I suppose that when I describe myself as a ‘fat’ child, I...