friendship

awards I’ve been keeping secret

June 14, 2010

Hello hello! So, I’ve been receiving some blog awards on the sly BUT have been so busy with our regularly scheduled programming that I have yet to acknowledge them! And I certainly do not want my fellow blogger to think I am ungrateful so I have decided to compile them into one major award post, [...]

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REAL Marriage Advice: Part TWO

May 29, 2010

Welcome to DAY TWO of Marzipan’s REAL marriage advice feature. Did you miss out on Part One? Head on over there now to learn the cast of characters, and the premise behind this project. [Summary is that my beloved bestie is getting married come September, so I rounded up the best of the best to [...]

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ask marzipan: life after a long-term relationship

May 12, 2009

dear dear medical marzipan, i have just come out of a long-term relationship, don’t know the first thing about dating and find myself reverting quickly to cat ladydom. how do you meet new people who you know are into you and emotionally accessible and trustworthy and won’t hurt you and will understand you???? i’d also [...]

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Ask Marzipan: testing the boundaries of monogamy

May 4, 2009

Dear Marzipan, My mother has always said that one needs to be proactive in preventing circumstances in which your monogamous loyalty to your partner can be disabled by formed feelings, developed desires for another.  In terms of pre-existing friendships (some with non-platonic histories thrown into the mix), what should I do?  Do I…allow for this [...]

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learning to apologize (excerpt)

March 1, 2009

I told you that I was sorry and I wanted to mean it. I wanted to mean it in the real way, the I know what I did was fucked up and I won’t do it again way. Won’t.  Not in the way that I had always known it to mean, the way in which [...]

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