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Katayoun Amini Marciano is a writer and actress. She has written for several TV shows, including Mythic Warriors on CBS, The Zack Files on FOX, and Mind of the Married Man on HBO, and starred in the TV series Due South. When she is not writing for television, she writes about motivating to overcome drug and alcohol addictions. Marciano lives in Los Angeles with her three children.
“Laughter, especially when everything looks lost. It’s the best exercise of faith.”
Dancing has long been associated in films and novels with what the “bad” kids do to defy adults (cue Dirty Dancing, Footloose). But what if dancing was actually a road to higher levels of intelligence—so much so that the person waltzing away was simultaneously warding off deterioration of their...
As far back as I can remember, I’ve chased anything that would replace pain with pleasure, starting with chocolate and attention, then upgrading to amphetamines, cocaine and eventually opiates. At the tail end of the 1980s, through a series of interventions I was forced to give up my...
