About Marcy
I'm tackling a series of challenges, and I'm becoming less timid and squeamish in the process. I'm also writing my memoirs, one scene at a time. Come along for the ride. Read more.-
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"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Recent Posts
- American Fried Rice and Mother’s Day Brunch
- Penelope, Persephone, and Imperfection
- A bucket of golf balls
- Timid No More eBook Trailer
- Simplicity
- Sneak Peak: Timid No More, an eBook
- Draw My Life, Please
- 10 Chapters in a Book About Me
- First World Problems
- Bad News Shop: Bases Loaded, Bottom of the Ninth
Recent Comments
- shannon { The picture at the end gave me goose bumps. So lovely. } – May 18, 7:41 PM
- Daniel Nest { Awesome post, awesome kids, awesome breakfast! Trifecta of awesomeness. } – May 18, 2:16 PM
- zoe { What a beautiful family! I loved this post! AMerican fried rice....ick. } – May 18, 2:05 PM
- nataliedeyoung { How beautiful, and how true.
And I laughed at the "American Fried Rice." } – May 18, 1:23 PM - Adaobi { You had me at American Fried Rice and the picture, food glorious food...the rest was just an excellent bonus. } – May 18, 12:44 PM
- paradisemomster { What a great analogy for motherhood! I was heavy in the Bitter Greens and Sweets this mother's day as well. Beautiful family! } – May 18, 11:59 AM
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My Favorites
- 47 Years of Great Rock: You Say It’s Your Birthday
- 50, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Push-up
- A noob gets pwned: Giving World of Warcraft a try at my children’s insistence
- Benign
- Guest post on traveling the world with children
- How to eat real food in 8 easy steps
- If You Give a Mom a Blog
- In the days of my youth… Listening to Led Zeppelin
- Internet Exile, Part Two
- It took me only 13 days to stop complaining for a week
- Just let go: Jump off a cliff
- Love in a Mixtape
- Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies in Cages with Tigers
- My First (and Second) Confession
- Peanut Zombies and Squeamish Vegans: My First Blogoversary
- Sleepers: 10 movies you’ve never seen, but should
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Categories
- 101 Things (87)
- Connecticut (28)
- Et Cetera (50)
- Fitness (18)
- Food (53)
- Life's Experiments (3)
- Music (12)
- Photography Challenge (16)
- Scene from a Memoir (24)
- Travel (23)
- Video (25)
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Quarterly report #4: 101 things in 1001 days
4th quarterly report: January – March, 2012 I’ve completed 45 things during my first year of 101 things in 1001 days. Bring on the spring! COUNTDOWN CLOCKS Tasks completed: #18. Go snowboarding: Slide, fall, struggle, repeat: My first snowboarding … Continue reading
Sleepers: 10 more movies you’ve never seen, but should
Link to first list: 10 movies you’ve never seen, but should Some of these movies are sleepers; some are beloved ones that you may have forgotten. Here are 10 more movies you’ve never seen, but should: one all-time favorite movie … Continue reading
Hair today, gone tomorrow
Congratulations to my husband for shaving his head to support the fight against cancer. He looks pretty great, doesn’t he? Thanks for the support. Randy’s St. Baldrick’s Donation Page Update–The video: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook … Continue reading
My Antonia Didn’t Change, But I Sure Did
My Ántonia Didn’t Change, But I Sure Did Deep in the pages of My Ántonia, I was shocked to find that the fortunes of the title character, an impoverished Bohemian girl, had changed since the last time I’d read the … Continue reading
Posted in Scene from a Memoir
Tagged link party, memoir, My Antonia, Scene from a Memoir, writing prompt
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My husband’s going bald, and I like it
My husband’s going bald, and I like it. Randy’s shaving his head on March 19 to raise money for cancer research. A donation of any amount would be greatly appreciated. Or, you could just wait for the “after” pictures! Randy’s … Continue reading
That’s the Way the Fortune Cookie Crumbles
This is part of a series, “Scene from a memoir I haven’t written yet.” Please scroll to the bottom to see how to link up a post of your own. Photo by Team Dalog That’s the Way the Fortune Cookie … Continue reading



