About Jessi Sanfilippo

Jessi Sanfilippo (aka shuggilippo) is a self-proclaimed, hilariously cool geek. She is the mother to her son, Dylan, and quite the son of a mother. Having been thrust into motherhood with a dash of PPD and previously misdiagnosed bi-polar disorder, she fights tooth and nail to regain the body that has been love torn by a few of the greatest things in her life; her son and her depression. (Say wha?! She must really be kooky!) You can find Jessi’s writing, heavy on the vocab, at her site, www.shuggilippo.com and quipping with the cool kids over on Twitter as .

One Of The Boys

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Most women I know who “grew up one of the boys” did so because they were one of five kids…and the only girl. Rough-housing and poop jokes were all they really knew and that gave them a free pass to hang with the dudes. Based on the reaction I get from women and men nowadays [...]

The Tilt Shifts Reality

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It’s no surprise that I’ve gone through some physical changes and struggles with my weight. These changes came not from the growth of a miniature human, because ten days on the breast, the swift passing of a gall stone, and the lingering metabolism of my early twenties had me back in pre-babe shape by week [...]