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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I have had a complicated relationship with food for as long as I can remember. I often find that my days are filled with complex rituals of wanting, needing, accumulating, and feeling guilty about food. Upon becoming an “adult” it was a major relief to me to be in complete and total responsibility of what [...]
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Since monday I have been thinking a lot about the last ask marzipan column in which I advised one reader to not forget about her own needs while in the midst of a romantic whirlwind, and I have decided that the topic of self care and preservation is one that deserves some more attention. Example: [...]
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Dear Medicinal Marzipan, Your response to last week’s Ask Marizpan post was very helpful! Here’s my issue: When I’m in a relationship I tend to throw all my energies into it and into my partner? I get so enraptured in all the intense, romantic, and intimate feelings, but sometimes forget to love myself and lose who [...]
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Hello hello and welcome to the first for real, very serious, weekly installment of body loving posts of the blogosphere! Since it’s been so long since my last post of this nature I have oodles of fun and beautiful reads for you! Una Bella Vita, You Can Be Loved Every Woman Has an Eating Disorder, Stories: [...]
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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 know you think I’ve abandoned you. In some ways perhaps this is true, so I will give you that, but I assure you that I still love you. In fact I have been spending much time thinking about the many many ways in which to serve you better and bring you more fun, more [...]
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Because it has been much, much too long since I’ve had this much casual, uninterupted internet time. Jezebel, Mis-shapes: In Which We Explore The Ridiculousness of “Dressing for Your Shape” Fat Lot of Good, Call for study participants Big Fat Deal, Self-conscious during sex You Are Remarkable, Start your day off well Think Simple Now, [...]
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So, a most wonderful thing has happened to me. I had been manifesting adding a new, more interactive element to Medicinal Marzipan, but was unsure of exactly how to go about it, and then AMAZINGLY, an email appeared in my inbox asking me to address an issue on my blog, prompting me to not only [...]
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We adopted a chick. And though usually I have a NO pet policy because my heart is so quick to fall and latch on, we began naming her Olive, Violet, until finally settling on Rosie, though I usually called her Peep. Rosie had been abandoned by her mother. She had found C out on the [...]
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