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On Feeling Small and Learning to be Brave

by Marzipan on June 14, 2011 · 22 comments

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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whales ate my blog post

by Marzipan on May 25, 2010 · 4 comments

Because sometimes, even when you have the best of the best blog intentions,  you find yourself impromptu whale watching in the middle of the afternoon on a beautiful day of with your little love. before whale sighting a breach! a breach! What did you do today that brought you back to living 100% in the [...]

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body loving blogosphere 12.06.09

by Marzipan on December 6, 2009 · 0 comments

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the post also known as: my brain hurts so freaking bad I can barely see. or: I will be done with my grad school applications and MAT-taking on wednesday. She’s up, she’s down. The upside: it is my baby sister’s birthday tomorrow!! (One of them anyway.) And she is in africa working her ass off [...]

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Quiet And Perfect Moment In Time

by Marzipan on October 25, 2009 · 0 comments

I am so grateful for this day. What are you grateful for?

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

by Marzipan on August 13, 2009 · 7 comments

photo/cupcakes by the amazing hello naomi, click for flicker page

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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marzipan loves: BEAR WEEK

by Marzipan on July 16, 2009 · 0 comments

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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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hoop dream deja vu

by Marzipan on October 13, 2008 · 2 comments

Since the spring I’ve been having this recurring hoop dream. In the dream I’m performing on a stage alone, wearing pink fishnets, to standing in the way of control by the Gossip. I look up into the audience, and its as if everything in my life has stalled for that moment and I can barely [...]

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