children

a prayer for the children of divorce

July 8, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a child of divorce, as many, many people who are growing up in the US right now share this common experience. People are getting divorced more swiftly these days, it seems, and quite often [more often than not?] people are growing up in [...]

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True Life: I Grew Up In a Queer Household

June 18, 2010

I was seven when my parent separated. They moved into separate parts of the house, then across the street from one another, and then ultimately, got divorced. Then they moved on, and began dating other people. My father had a series of girlfriends, some of whom lived with us and some that had other children. [...]

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ask marzipan: how do I keep from passing my negative body image to my child?

February 19, 2010

Hi from New Zealand! Just found your blog today, really enjoying it! I’ve struggled with body image all my life, I’m now in my early 30s and have a baby daughter, and I’m realising I need to be very careful not to inadvertantly pass my negative vibes on to her. We naturally tell her she’d [...]

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marzipan’s been reading stuff, and is not pleased.

December 15, 2009

So, here are the people that I’m in a internet-brain-battle with today: (usually I keep these brain battles quiet, but I am too infuriated and C’s nephew woke me up this morning by “playing the drums” with a spoon and pot. ouch.) the Healthy Moms study as reported by The New York Times, Jezebel, and [...]

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On being “gay”, looking straight, and a new generation of queer

August 13, 2009

Lately this has been happening to me with stunning regularity: an older gay person around town looks at me, kind of cocks her head to the side, and says (please note condescension), “Thats so sweet that you are in love, is this your first serious relationship with a girl?” Or something of the like. And [...]

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