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A sparkling little corner for navigating motherhood, family, life’s unexpected storms, and all the glorious chaos in between, with plenty of humor, heart, and a dash of magic.

  • Healing my Hips and My Heart
    ’s been 22 days since my hip replacement surgery, and the hardest part is slowing down. I want to be healed. I want to dance, to stretch, to slide into bed without tweaking pain, to sleep on any side I choose. I want to jump into the ocean and then
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  • Hip Update
    t is an interesting journey to replace a hip as a belly dancer. My hips have been the source of so much luscious beauty and pleasure over the decades. Wrapped in silks and jewels, my hips have been a volcanic source of power for me; a juicy hip circle swivels,
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  • When you feel destroyed, create!
    Because I felt so crushed, so destroyed, I started to create, all day every. I painted my longing for strength, I danced my grief through my body, and I wrote, faster, harder, wilder…
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  • Audiobook Giveaway!
    Giveaway today!! 4-day countdown! The first ten people to sign up today for my upcoming Travel Writing Master class can message me and receive a secret code for a FREE audiobook of my bestseller Divorce Diva on Audible! 24 hours only! 12-12 starting now! Find out why listeners are saying
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  • My Mom is my Paris
    I just want to be next to her, to read to her, put my arms around her, to feel my heart near hers, and pretend that her brain will come back and she will remember who I am, even for one bittersweet moment.
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  • Attending My First Wedding as a Divorcee Was Not What I Expected
    Last week I attended my first wedding as a divorcee, and I wasn’t expecting the cascading waves of mixed emotions. I was happy for my niece of course, and I do adore romance and beauty, but there were moments at the wedding that were zings of pain, like little divorce
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  • Chuck E. Weiss has fallen into the Big Sleep
    A few minutes later, I heard the sound of a saxophone and finger-snapping and saw the crowd of sweaty bodies parting to make way for two vastly different oddballs: a tall wild-haired saxophone player named Spyder Mittleman, and the very short Chuck E., who was hunched over, snapping his fingers
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  • Egypt and the Magic Carpet
    My Mom could never understand why I felt compelled to jump into adventures in faraway lands, and she would say, “Oh Marci, how do you do that? How do you dare to go to these places by yourself? Aren’t you scared?” This perplexed me, because when I travel, I feel
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  • Dashing Divorcee Zsa Zsa Gabor
    “You never really know a man until you have divorced him.” Zsa Zsa Gabor
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