PAWTUCKET – The pandemic abruptly altered plans for the Class of 2022 at St. Raphael Academy, said Principal Daniel Richard at the school’s 95th commencement exercises last Saturday, June 4,
and you a those itty-bitty waist lines? then again, they did have those big skirts. that s an optical illusion. audrey hepburn was just tiny everywhere. like cassidy. they say in the 50s, average middle-aged woman that would have been my mom had a 28-inch waist. now, today, in case you re counting, the average measurement is 34 inches. one inch per ten years. every decade, one inch. there s a couple of reasons for that. one, women no longer do as much physical housework. that may come as a surprise to all of you who are vacuuming now. but you had to put some umph into things in the past. all of the appliances are kind of do-it-yourself. you have to do less. a lot of women are working at desks, sedentary during most of the day. we park closer to the mall. no one wants to park in the back and walk. what are you saying? we re just lazy. portion sizes back then were much smaller than they are now. and there wasn t as much processed stuff. and there weren t f