MissMeliss | March 7, 2010
I don’t profess to know the best acne treatments, though I’ve heard drinking plenty of water is helpful. What I do know is that when I need a major boost, a visit to the salon, whether for a facial, a mani-pedi, or even a cut and color, is just what I need. I spent Saturday [...]
MissMeliss | February 17, 2010
Click image to embiggen Late last week, Chris and I received some devastating news: his brother-in-law, a man I know to be brilliant, vibrant, kind, and funny, who has been fighting brain cancer for about a year, was given a new prognosis: days to live instead of months. As soon as we heard, we began [...]
MissMeliss | January 23, 2010
I’m sleepy and kind of migraine-y tonight, the first because I stayed up too late and then got up too early, and the second because there’s a storm system in town. Love the rain; hate what it does to my head. But it’s really the late night activity I want to talk about. First, I [...]
MissMeliss | January 22, 2010
MissMeliss | January 21, 2010
I’m not a big believer in horoscopes, especially not the mass produced ones done by syndicated astrologers. By and large, I think they tell us what we want to hear, or we interpret them as we want to, forming self-fulfilling prophecies. However, sometimes I do get a kick out of comparing what they say. Today [...]
MissMeliss | January 4, 2010
Burning the Old Year Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an [...]
MissMeliss | January 2, 2010
I’ve been lax about my participation in Holidailies during this 2009-2010 season, but it isn’t because I have nothing to write. It’s that I’m crazy busy and so very tired, and then, I’m still on the tail end of recovering from food poisoning. Woefully behind or not, however, I want to share a poem with [...]
MissMeliss | December 22, 2009
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. My favorite Christmas song changes from year to year. Two years ago, I couldn’t get the Kay Starr rendition of “The Man with the Bag” out of my head, while last year it was Leigh Nash’s “Babe in the [...]
MissMeliss | December 21, 2009
“And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.” – William Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost I just finished a text conversation in which TeenG and I made plans to bake gingerbread on Christmas Eve. While this would be a generally fun thing to do, it’s not just just [...]
MissMeliss | December 10, 2009
Most of us are familiar with the standard definition of “family,” that of parents and children living together. There is, however, an alternate definition of family: a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together In my life, I am privileged, even [...]
In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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