Love & Light
Marci Darling is a writer, filmmaker, speaker, teacher, educational consultant, performer, and M.O.M. (Monarch of Merriment) to two teenagers. She believes storytelling, art, and innovation are the keys to creating a world of unique thinkers and sparkling minds. She is passionate about boldly telling her own stories, as well as teaching and empowering others to do the same.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered souls into whole ones.
Anais Nin
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Magic Carpets, Flying Ships, and Moonlit Kingdoms: The True Travel Stories of Marci Darling
Travel heals me, inspires and ignites me, educates me, and flings the doors of my heart, soul, and mind wide open. Travel My Darling! Make Magic!

Divorce Diva: Navigating Grief and Loss with Hope, Humor, and Chutzpah
Picture this: Marci Darling, Holly Golightly, and Zelda Fitzgerald stumble into Auntie Mame's bedroom, cocktails in hand, for an evening of dish and swish about their recent breakups. After a bit of tomfoolery, Divorce Diva is born, a nonfiction book about one woman’s journey from broken-hearted bubby to badass babe.
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Hedy Lamarr, My Mom, and “The Book”
My Mom was famous for only keeping family pictures where she looked good, even when the rest of the family looked like we went out

Pop the Champagne! My Research is Published!!
Pop the Champagne! I can’t believe it but after many years of intense research that felt a lot like wrestling a minotaur, my research on

Lusquiver, Yumtober, Sunshiftmania… Traveling and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
I live in “lusquiver.” No it’s not a town in New England you have never heard of, nor is it a kingdom springing from a

The Osmonds and Marlina
Every Friday night from 1976-79, I watched the Donny and Marie Show. My sisters and I had pretend silver microphones and sang duets in front

Holidays for the Aching
I’m still waiting for a holiday to roll around that doesn’t make my heart ache. I thought it might be this one but I woke

A Carpathian Cultural Tour
This author, for one, finds this all a most intoxicating mixture. A society seems to always be attempting to scrub clean its past, for better
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