http://marcywrites.com Life. It's Comedy. Wed, 23 May 2012 22:48:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://marcywrites.com/2011/07/do-you-remember-this-4th-of-july/ http://marcywrites.com/2011/07/do-you-remember-this-4th-of-july/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:23:32 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2011/07/do-you-remember-this-4th-of-july/ You helped your mom make this… Then watched your brother’s boy scout troop in the parade… Your dad went here more than once that day. And bought one of everything. Twice. And that night you held these till your fingers got burned.   But nothing could have made you happier. Because staying up way past [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2011/07/do-you-remember-this-4th-of-july/feed/ 2 http://marcywrites.com/2011/04/being-raised-by-zig-ziglar/ http://marcywrites.com/2011/04/being-raised-by-zig-ziglar/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:46:49 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2011/04/being-raised-by-zig-ziglar/   My dad was awesome. (You can read all about his awesomeness here and here and here.) And in the mid seventies he was sent by his company (Lightning Bolt I believe) to a Zig Ziglar seminar. And he returned with this genuine faux leather rectangular fold over pouch full of Zig Ziglar cassette tapes. [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2011/04/being-raised-by-zig-ziglar/feed/ 5 http://marcywrites.com/2011/03/i-have-never-liked-being-a-girl-and-why-i-am-not-a-mommy-blogger/ http://marcywrites.com/2011/03/i-have-never-liked-being-a-girl-and-why-i-am-not-a-mommy-blogger/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:15:00 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2011/03/i-have-never-liked-being-a-girl-and-why-i-am-not-a-mommy-blogger/ I have never really liked being a girl. Wait back up- I liked BEING a girl, just never liked being segregated for it. My first of a million examples: In second grade I went storming into Mr. Greens office (our school principal) and protested the fact that I was told I was not permitted to [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2011/03/i-have-never-liked-being-a-girl-and-why-i-am-not-a-mommy-blogger/feed/ 10 http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/technical-difficultiesugh/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/technical-difficultiesugh/#comments Tue, 26 May 2009 19:07:05 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/technical-difficultiesugh/ The category pages are ALL MESSED UP. I working on fixing by re-entering every category and tag for all of my 800 posts in the archive. In the meantime use my search function to find past MarcyThen, AdTalk and more… The Association thanks you for your patience. And if you have some patience to spare [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/technical-difficultiesugh/feed/ 3 http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-4/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-4/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 16:10:40 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/?p=3243 Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You! Read guidelines for entry here. Its really very simple. And a quick note to let you know I will be moving the FRO to a monthly linky. I am hoping this will give participants more time to gather/scan old photos and get their posts up. (will be 2nd [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-4/feed/ 6 http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-3/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-3/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 03:09:28 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/?p=3199 Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You. What is this? Read all about it here and then join in. As you know, I like taking photos. I have even been called a photographer. Yes, I have been paid to take photos for years. And as you can imagine I have taken hundreds of thousands of [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/05/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-3/feed/ 14 http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-making-contact/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-making-contact/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:53:45 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/29/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-making-contact/ Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You! This is a Linky Party, and it is BYOP so drop your post at the door with Mr. Linky. Guidelines and explanation on why we would all want to post embarrassing  photos can be found HERE. Once upon a time (circa 1982) my mother bought (for all of [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-making-contact/feed/ 17 http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-2/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-2/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:28:10 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/22/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-2/ Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You. A weekly linky party which gives you the perfect excuse to break out those photos which have a funny story behind them. I love to humiliate myself…it is my new extreme sport…but you can humiliate your children if you prefer. Confused? Please read the guidelines here. I hope [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-2/feed/ 16 http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sfmty-what-happens-in-wisconsin-stays-in-wisconsin/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sfmty-what-happens-in-wisconsin-stays-in-wisconsin/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 03:00:05 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/08/sfmty-what-happens-in-wisconsin-stays-in-wisconsin/ Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You linky party! Remember to read the guidelines if you are new to this….and then link up! I adore seeing what you bring to the party….so come on you lurkers- give it a try. After all public humiliation is the new extreme sport! Do not attempt to adjust your [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sfmty-what-happens-in-wisconsin-stays-in-wisconsin/feed/ 15 http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:00:23 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/01/sincerely-fro-me-to-you/ Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You Party! A weekly linky to post a photo- and tell its story…want all the details and how to join in? Click HERE Well folks, that is little one year old me in this photo. Being sprayed to death by my brother. My mom says she has the photo [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you/feed/ 15 http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-merry-sweat-mas/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-merry-sweat-mas/#comments Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:31:10 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/25/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-merry-sweat-mas/   Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You linky party! (I know this is on the heels of Proposal 2.0 linky. But I hate to miss a week on the Fro!) Where the photos you would really rather not show anyone are shared with the entire Internet. Which makes perfect sense to bloggers. Read all [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-merry-sweat-mas/feed/ 12 http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-keeping-it-real/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-keeping-it-real/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:00:22 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/11/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-keeping-it-real/ Welcome to this week’s party! It is B.Y.O.P. (Bring Your Own Post) as always. So please drop your off with Mr. Linky at the door. If he is not there check over by the bar…Mr. Linky loves a good mimosa. Are you new to the Fro? Please check out the guidelines here. And then JOIN [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-keeping-it-real/feed/ 10 http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-oh-the-regret/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-oh-the-regret/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:00:01 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/04/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-oh-the-regret/   Welcome to the first Sincerely Fro Me to You Linky Party hosted here at The Association. I am honored and giddy just thinking Kristen trusted me to take this over. I have been a participant since day one…and loved every minute of it. {New? Fro Guidelines} In honor of my new Fro Party caretaker [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/sincerely-fro-me-to-you-oh-the-regret/feed/ 12 http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/marcythen-when-kelloggs-gave-me-a-bike-i-couldnt-ride-but-didnt-care/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/marcythen-when-kelloggs-gave-me-a-bike-i-couldnt-ride-but-didnt-care/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:57:36 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/03/marcythen-when-kelloggs-gave-me-a-bike-i-couldnt-ride-but-didnt-care/   In the fall of 1973, when I was 4 years old my mother saw an ad on the back of a Kellogg cereal box asking for children to send in drawings of Kellogg Characters for a competition. I sat down that morning and drew (and I remember this very clearly) the Apple Jack’s kids [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/03/marcythen-when-kelloggs-gave-me-a-bike-i-couldnt-ride-but-didnt-care/feed/ 7 http://marcywrites.com/2009/02/7-year-old-marcy-sent-me-a-message-today/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/02/7-year-old-marcy-sent-me-a-message-today/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:00:06 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/02/25/7-year-old-marcy-sent-me-a-message-today/ While searching thru boxes of old photos I came across a small yellowed piece of paper folded into fours. I opened it and smiled. This is a poem I wrote when I was 7 years old. I don’t remember writing it, but it made me smile for another reason. Sometime after I was ‘an adult’ [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/02/7-year-old-marcy-sent-me-a-message-today/feed/ 23 http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-the-glamorous-years-as-a-pre-teen-performer/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-the-glamorous-years-as-a-pre-teen-performer/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:53:41 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/29/marcythen-the-glamorous-years-as-a-pre-teen-performer/ Welcome to another installment of photos that seemed perfectly normal at the time…and now? Now they just baffle the mind. Now what could be going on here? I was about 11 years old and I was in a dance group that performed at such glorious events as conventions and if we were desperate lucky even [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-the-glamorous-years-as-a-pre-teen-performer/feed/ 20 http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-when-i-was-a-saloon-girl/ http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-when-i-was-a-saloon-girl/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:07:56 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/08/marcythen-when-i-was-a-saloon-girl/ Welcome to this week’s embarrassing photo for the famous We are THAT Family linky. I know you are having a hard time reading this post, because your eyes are drawn to the 9 year old girl who is dressed like a hooker or dance hall girl or both. I will give you a minute to [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/marcythen-when-i-was-a-saloon-girl/feed/ 23 http://marcywrites.com/2008/12/marcythen-my-time-on-the-runway/ http://marcywrites.com/2008/12/marcythen-my-time-on-the-runway/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:16:12 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/2008/12/15/marcythen-my-time-on-the-runway/ I was 9 years old and a kinda half a$$ member of the Campfire Girls. I joined that year and quit that year as I recall. I really got into the crafts- but I sorta refused to call a schoolmates mom (our leader) by her ‘Indian’ name. (which I remember as being ‘SHYBEE”, and this [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2008/12/marcythen-my-time-on-the-runway/feed/ 14 http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/um-you-look-familar/ http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/um-you-look-familar/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:54 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/?p=1066 Look at Marcy. Isn’t she tough? And so cool. Standing on that sand dune in Death Valley with the motorcycle dudes behind her? Ya, she rode them too. (the motorcycles not the dudes). But gosh her look is so familiar. Like maybe she was channeling her look from someone else? Hmmm…who could it be? Could [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/um-you-look-familar/feed/ 7 http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/something-i-learned-today/ http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/something-i-learned-today/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:53:28 +0000 Marcy http://marcywrites.com/?p=994 *BEFORE you read: I am a Christain. I love me some Jesus. After calling my children’s school district to find out more about a ‘Release Time’ christian education trailer parked at a park near school property, I learned many many things. 1. I learned that while the school allows children to leave campus and go [...]]]> http://marcywrites.com/2008/10/something-i-learned-today/feed/ 19