Inside Marcy's Mind

Send us Fan Mail Grocery shopping feels scarier than a haunted house when grown adults abandon carts, block aisles, and turn produce into a full investigation. I rant through self-checkout chaos, express lane nonsense, and parking lot headaches, then land on a simple fix for keeping your sanity. • Halloween week opener and a listener question about grocery store pet peeves • Quick life catch-up, healing updates, and fall fun around Chicago • Shopping carts abandoned in aisle...

Send us Fan Mail You know that moment when you say, “I’ll remember,” and a future version of you immediately suffers? That’s the kind of everyday self-deception we’re unpacking, with plenty of laughs and more than a few painfully relatable confessions. From putting something “somewhere safe” (which is apparently a portal) to insisting we’re only running into Target for one thing, these tiny lies shape our routines, our clutter, and our stress more than we’d like to admit. I walk throug...

Send us Fan Mail You know that version of you who’s competent in public, then immediately turns into a completely different person at home? That’s where we’re going today. I’m talking about the tiny, harmless things we do when nobody’s watching: the fridge stare-down, the running narration in our heads, the full-on negotiations with a jar, and the way a printer can make a grown adult speak like a disappointed principal. We also get real about the “unofficial recap” of a normal week. The publ...

Send us Fan Mail The doorbell rings and your first thought is not “yay, company” it is “hide.” That tiny reaction says a lot about modern life, so I’m digging into it from the coziest angle possible: fall in the city, soup on the stove, and the kind of friendship that doesn’t require a calendar invite. I’m recovering well after a major health scare, and it has me looking hard at what we stress over versus what actually fills us up. I keep coming back to something that used to be normal: drop...

Send us Fan Mail I’m a planner to my core, so getting derailed by a hospital stay and a canceled France trip forces me to face a hard truth about control. I talk through disappointment, recovery, and why I’m still making plans anyway, just with more care and more honesty. • why planning feels like control and why life disagrees • canceling France and letting myself feel sad about it • holding gratitude and disappointment at the same time • adjusting after the hospital ...