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
- Cranky Old Man { I remember this, still good, and I'm still a wuss. } – May 24, 12:36 PM
- amandakendle (@amandakendle) { Eek!!! I'm a wimp, and wouldn't (couldn't?!) do this, but no judgement I reckon. They do look gorgeous! But I will stick with my slightly... } – May 24, 8:19 AM
- beverlydiehl { That breakfast reminds me of those old ads, "Lard - It's good for you!" Sadly, I think many American would not only order that, but... } – May 20, 7:10 PM
- cynkingfeeling { You did a much better job of capturing the spirit in motherhood with your brunch analogy than the hotel did in capturing our culture in... } – May 20, 9:41 AM
- 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
Celebrate your courage; send me a postcard.
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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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Category Archives: Life’s Experiments
Life’s Experiments: Postcards from Outside Your Comfort Zone {#1}
{In this new series, readers send in postcards from outside their comfort zones. Celebrate your courage: Send me a postcard.} By David, my son, age 15 (Read the story behind my son’s submission of this postcard.) Gallery of Postcards Whose … Continue reading
Punked: The story behind my first postcard
Here’s the story behind my first Life’s Experiments postcard, a new project in which readers send in postcards to celebrate their courage in going out of their comfort zones. (See the postcard.) My Tricky Teenage Son Less than 24 hours after … Continue reading
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Life’s Experiments: Send me your postcard
{Celebrate your courage. Send me a postcard about how you have pushed yourself out of your comfort zone.} “Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” –Ralph … Continue reading
