This blog started life in 2006 as Shrinking Sisters but as the saying goes, you can lead your sister to Typepad but you can't make her blog. Hence, Go! Go! Gail!

I'm a South Florida-based freelance editor and writer with years of newspaper journalism experience. 

I'm married to a wire service reporter and mom to a college kid who has an enviable metabolism.

I love working out (yes, I can actually say that!), coming up with healthy recipes, bossing around my personal assistant (he's a dog ... an actual dog) and watching baseball.

In 2018 I took the plunge and had gastric bypass surgery, to help fix my lifetime of weight issues and my wicked bad reflux and hiatal hernia. One year later, I am just about to 100 pounds lost.