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Globe and Mail’s new Life section

by Jummy

Iin addition to shrinking the size of its paper, the Globe and Mail launched a new section of its newspaper yesterday, Globe Life. This new section will provide readers with news on all aspects of life including health, family, relationships, food and wine, and the home–a range of topics that will be covered by a number of experts and professionals. I’m looking forward to reading this section, which, unlike some of the newspaper’s other sections, will be published every weekday.

If you don’t get this paper locally, feel free to check on the Life section online

Edited to add: When inspired, I’ll include a story from the paper that touched me or gave me food for thought (or both). Today’s is ‘I’ve had it with your weight’, Cameron French’s essay about how his former best friend’s obesity led to the end of their relationship. What do you think of French’s tough love approach?


Posted in Announcements, Ordinary life on April 24th, 2007

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4 Responses to “Globe and Mail’s new Life section”

  1. Big Man Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 9:40 am

    heh heh heh, I don’t even know how to approach this topic as I weight 400 lbs. :D Well, I’m actually around 375 or so. Not sure, scales don’t go high enough for me to weigh myself.

    Good for Dave for losing the weight.

    a-bleh. :D

  2. Jummy Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    If any of my friends gave me an ultimatum about my weight to the effect of “lose weight or lose the friendship”, I might just say goodbye and buy myself a congratulatory bag of skittles! ;)

  3. Big Man Says:
    April 27th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    I am in agreement. If your friends don’t like you for who you are, well, what can you do?

    pfft.

  4. Cameron French Says:
    May 3rd, 2007 at 7:43 pm

    Actually I love David. Yes, to this day. We shared an experience, and let’s be honest, he made the effort to change his life. Now we are 50, he has a teenaged son, a happy relationship and the prospect of a long, happy life. Am I sorry that we are not as close as we used to be? Of course.
    Was it worth it?

    Ask David.
    I doubt he would be alive to answer if he had not made the requisite sacrifices.

    He came to a halloween party a couple of years after he lost the weight. Had a 78″ waisteline. Came as his former self and put four pillows in his pants to extend his waisteline.

    I love him (the first cut is the deepest) and always will. And if the price was a damaged relatinship (in my mind it evolved, not as I might have wished but just the same)it was well worth it.

    I will wager large - David would agree.

    Glad it is an issue for discussion and hopefully an impetus for change for some.

    Cheers,

    CF

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