“Marcia Sue, stop that shuckling!” I still hear that voice so clearly in my head, and that Yiddish word, but don’t recall who it belonged to. Only how my habit of rocking myself in the car (and other places) was a cause for disapproval — even some alarm, though I…

Marcia Singer, MSW Polyamory is a topic fraught with misunderstanding and prohibition, entangled in religious, political, societal mores. And while we now recognize a “spectrum” for conditions like autism, few societies acknowledge the wholly natural spectrum of human sexual expression or gender identification, or the variety of love partners that…

Exploring the alchemy of an odd, amorous coupling My former boyfriend and I were an odd couple. We seemed different in so many ways. I was a vegetarian who ate health foods and grew my own organic herbs. Tom “ate anything,” much to my dismay. I was more of an introvert, caught up in my inner world of…

The first time I saw them kiss, my life changed forever…. Most of us take for granted the possibility of falling in love and sharing the thrill of holding hands and kissing for the first time. We think nothing of fantasizing about even a whole lot more, and expect that…

by Marcia Singer, MSW God has a sense of humor — or should we say, Sense of Humor? I mean, it’s showtime, isn’t it? S/He made the world, right?! Inspired every joke and every comedy routine of every standup in Los Angeles? Prodded every writer of every book, movie, tv…

Was singing my way home, always in me? If you’ve ever had fears about aging, this one’s for you: There are many graces in growing elder. One of them happens in moments when your life flashes before you in a mysteriously beautiful way. You sense that you’ve come full circle…

a summer’s afternoon surprise for a lifetime The summer of ’91 catapulted me into deep exploration of the mysterious realm of sexual and creative life-force energies. I became alert to a connection, a relationship between the very nature of this subtle energy anatomy, and to opening up my heart to…

The challenges of the past two years clearly bring to light the benefits of having ‘upbeat’ habits, and skills to generate optimism, humor and compassion for us earthlings. Whole-hearted health requires being upbeat in the face of the tough stuff that’s happening. It means being able to list towards the…

Creativity is one of my favorite aspects of being alive in a body on planet earth. And one of my favorite things to write about. Its root Latin meaning is to bring something into being — and not necessarily in an unusual, outlandish or precocious way. Everyone has this native…