family

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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what my prayers look like

June 24, 2010

There have been many things happening behind the scenes here at the Marzipan Palace, things that I’m not entirely sure how to describe to you or put into the format of this blog, but in this post I want to try. Please feel free to email me medicinalmarzipan[at]gmail[dot]com if this post is unclear or if [...]

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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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guest posting AWESOME and the giveaway WINNER

April 29, 2010

Wow. It has been an insane/exciting/crazy/awesome week here at Medicinal Marzipan. There are quite a few phenomenal comments on my previous post, What if I Stopped Comparing Myself to Others, have you read it yet? Really lovely and wonderful reader responses, including one from my adorable baby sister – sobfest2010.  And you all know that [...]

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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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