MissMeliss | May 31, 2010
It’s not even June (quite) but already temperatures here are creeping higher and higher – we’ve had the high nineties for DAYS now – and weather.com says we’ll exceed 100 degrees sometime next week. The dogs wander out, do their business, then beg to return to the air conditioned bliss of inside – even Cleo, [...]
MissMeliss | May 26, 2010
I’ve been a fan of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House… books practically since I learned to read, so when I heard there was going to be a musical version of the story I was both excited and trepidatious. Excited because any Wilder project brings more attention to the books, and that’s a good thing, and [...]
MissMeliss | May 20, 2010
I still have oodles of stuff to write about, but we finally arrived home last night, me from Mexico, and Chris from Florida. While I had a lot of fun hanging with my mother, lying in the sun, exploring La Paz and swimming with fish, I wasn’t really on vacation. Work on the Internet travels [...]
MissMeliss | May 16, 2010
When I packed to come here I brought enough packets of protein shake and vitamin supplements to last my entire trip. I’ve had a couple shakes, but have largely forgotten the vitamins. This is not good. I haven’t been eating unhealthy breakfasts, but skipping that meal entirely, something I tend to do far too often. [...]
MissMeliss | May 16, 2010
It’s a good thing I didn’t come to Mexico to learn how to reduce belly fat, because while we’ve done a lot of walking, we’ve also done a ton of eating. Posada La Poza, where we had a sumptuous lunch of shrimp quesadillas (me), scallops and salad (Mom) and chili rellenos (Ira) while sitting on [...]
MissMeliss | May 16, 2010
I don’t know a thing about which is the best ab workout, but I can tell you that climbing sidewalks in small Mexican towns definitely gives you great legs, and helps you learn to balance. Here in La Paz, the sidewalks are all tall, but not generally alarmingly so, though some of the driveways are [...]
MissMeliss | May 15, 2010
10:14 PM on Friday, and I’m curled up on the bed in the casita at my mother’s house. I’ve been using my laptop to watch movies and such, but haven’t really felt like writing, just experiencing, except for some Facebook and Twitter posts. Monday, I got on a plane at 6:10 in the morning, and [...]
MissMeliss | May 5, 2010
I’ve noticed this very weird thing with my kitchen sink: the water pressure is extremely variable. I’ve thought about calling the home warranty people, or the city, but – as if someone is tapped (no pun intended) into my brain – every time I think to call them, the pressure mysteriously resumes. For a long [...]
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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