This post has been written for this month’s Self-Discovery Word by Word prompt: BRAVERY sponsored by Dana from The Body and The Brood. Want to participate? Please do! Read Dana’s post here, and check out the rules here. When I was a kid, I thought that bravery meant the grand sweeping …
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When I was a little girl, we were on a family trip to Mexico, and my mother read Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books out loud to us every night before we went to bed. Clamoring for more, we would force her to read for hours, enthralled by the magical story and, for the first [...]
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This week I am grateful that I am loved and accepted exactly the way that I am. It has been my experience that this kind of love is revolutionary. It has the power to move mountains, and make miracles happen. This kind of love is dual fold – it is the love that you feel [...]
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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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I mean, really, EVERY TIME I think that my heart has broken for the VERY LAST TIME, someone new tells me gay people shouldn’t get married. And to think, last night I went to bed smiling, thinking I was just in New York and they tooooootally love gay people. Turns out today is not the [...]
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The official line to be towed on this blog is: gay people = just like everyone else. Just in case there was some confusion about that point, and while I have been thinking a little about creating a separate queer blog because there are SO many problematic things going on right now that I feel [...]
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I feel the need to elaborate on the point that I understand the unfeminist-y generalizations that I expounded in my letter. Clearly, not every little girl grows up wanting to wear a white dress and get married in such a traditional way, however, this little girl did, and today its with this little girl in [...]
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dear maine, you have broken my heart a little bit today, though I had built up thick walls to bar out this type of sadness, owing to an over active imagination and inclination towards wishful thinking. the funny thing about growing up on this hook is it’s easy to forget that there are people for [...]
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I’m such a lucky girl. I can’t even describe to you the awesomeness that is my daily life during Bear Week in provincetown. For one week a year, and select weekends in october and march(?), the streets are over run with the most hilarious, joyful, loving visitors, pretty much single handedly trumping all of the [...]
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An article in the Huffington Post, Do Overweight Women Skip Sex? Fat Chance!, cites a recent study based on data on more than 7,000 women collected in the 2002 national survey of family growth in stating new claims that, contrary to popular belief (?), overweight and obese women seem to be having more sex than [...]
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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.
