Never have I ever set foot outside an airport in North Carolina!! And it was wonderful, truly. I had just the most wonderful little visit in Chapel Hill as C and I continued our trip south. This trip has kind of been a reunion tour of sorts, as I have been able to reconnect and [...]
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Ok. So I’ve been thinking about my last post and focusing my attention on concrete ways to tackle fear head on and pull myself out of a rut. The answer: do something NEW and EXCITING every day. Thus, I will be propelled out of my anxiety into action and adventure and, ultimately, joy. So I [...]
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I am generally a very fearful person. I grew up saying no automatically before I even considered the wonder and adventure of saying yes. For a period of time, from about six to eight I was awake. I would lie in bed, night after night terrified to roll over or shut my eyes paralyzed by [...]
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More and more often lately I have been having conversations with people about their fear and lack of confidence in sexual situations. And I have found myself surprised because these woes have been coming from the least likely suspects, women who I had formerly known to be strong, independent, sexy, and smart. Then I was [...]
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It has been that kind of day. The kind where you wake up and your throat hurts and you had dreams you had the spins or 125 whales were beached under hills of sand and you are grumpy and why won’t the coffee just make itself and you need a re-do, but there’s no time. Unfortunately I’ve [...]
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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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So last night, as I was patiently (?) awaiting sleep, I instead, for some very strange reason, found myself on the ugly doll webpage. Where I found myself playing a familiar game, you know, if I was an ugly doll which one would I be? And this seemed like a perfectly good use of time between [...]
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Where my focus is today, as I am trying to pull it all back together: by the amazing nikki mcclure
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Today is just about the most perfect and wonderful and special day I could possibly imagine. I am just so incredibly grateful and surprised even, and when I woke up this morning all I could bring myself to do was whisper Obama to the regular daily anxiety rising in my chest. And watching his speech last [...]
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Lately I’ve been wondering how it is that everyone in my life is so easily contained in themselves. I’ve been wondering how my friends are so beautiful and so pulled together. And then we talk and there seems to be so much overwhelming dissatisfaction. And I wonder, if you were able to ask for what [...]
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Medicinal Marzipan is a blog about learning to love yourself a little bit more every day - to the best of your abilities and without any regrets.
