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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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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Today while roaming your fully-stocked plentiful aisles, I found many promising potential purchases, and when I BARELY thought I could contain my glee, I came upon these: And THEN I remembered that it is only one week (ish) until my birthday, and thus should be allowed to purchase as many said (unnecessary?) absurdities as my [...]
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Happy 2009 loves. As I have been obsessively cultivating and nurturing my google reader (after a post from the amazing miss gala darling about HER google reader, and of course then i had to get one too), I have found several superb new body-loving posts to celebrate the new year! Hopefully you will find them [...]
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‘Tis the season to be jolly.. And I am jolly. I am happily surrounded by my sisters and mother and mother’s boyfriend and many misfit others buried under many many feet of snow upstate. And yet, as always, the holidays present a unique personal challenge, that of walking a careful line between expressing feelings as [...]
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I love Halloween, but I hate dressing up. I don’t know if it’s a mark of my lingering insecurities from my childhood, but every time I think about dressing up I find myself getting anxious and afraid. However, my Rob Brezsny horoscope this week stated this: PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you knew how perfect a [...]
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Sometimes there is the kind of day when you can barely make it out of bed, get dressed, and walk down the street because you are instantly immersed in a deep pool of self loathing and doubt.You open your eyes in the morning, and your thoughts quickly pull to every coulda-shoulda-woulda, to the careful swell [...]
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On Monday, I opened my mailbox in the morning to receive this note from the universe: When in a hurry, Mara, step #1 for changing the entire world, is falling in love with it as it already is. Same for changing yourself. You like? The Universe And best of all, Mara, with this approach, there [...]
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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.
