MissMeliss: Escribition

I’m not sure what the best fast weight loss tips would include, but I’m pretty sure, “eat cake for breakfast” would not be among them. Nevertheless, I began my morning with a mug of Tazo “Awake” tea, and three small – and by small I mean the size of petits fours – bits of cake, [...]

IHOP:
Let’s face it, this is not the place to go if you’re concerned about cholesterol treatments, but when you desperately want something quick, and it’s late at night, and you don’t want anything in a wrapper, it serves the need. Tonight, after our friend’s son, Teen G, helped Christopher with some emergency garage cleanup, and [...]

There is no business insurance for writers, as far as I know, but that’s okay, because now that I’m finally beginning to feel better (except for a minor fluish thing yesterday), my brain is once more in gear, and I’m inspired to work on my own stuff since my paid gigs are paying less.
Last [...]

Monday was an extremely challenging day for me. Or at least Monday evening was.
I had had a fairly productive morning and afternoon, the dogs had been outside most of the day, and I’d actually treated the holiday as a holiday and not a “get ahead on work” day, because I really needed to help my [...]

…and an Oreo cookie.
They really are a classic combination, as the ancient jingle went. They’re also my current addiction, which is alarming in the extreme, because generally speaking, I’m not an Oreo fan.
But for the last two weeks, I’ve HAD to have them, with or without milk. Actually, I like them with Good Earth [...]

Silverware clatters not quite in time to the beat of a festive Celtic aire being piped into the room from hidden speakers. Glasses of beer land on table tops with solid thuds that seem to predict the level of satisfaction the drinker will experience. Guinness, for example, even sounds hearty, while the average lager or [...]

“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 any afternoon [...]

A few years after my mother and stepfather were married, Bubbie (his mother) came to visit for Hanukkah. Our celebration was largely secular, as the closest relationship to Judiasm in my family is the fact that my Italian-American grandmother was named “Esther,” and has my stepfather hadn’t practiced his religion in decades, though he acknowledged [...]

I’m not sure what the best fat burner is, but I can tell you what it’s not: leftover chocolate bars from Halloween.
No, I haven’t been pigging out. I opened a bag when a young friend was here, and dipped into it a couple times while I was really not feeling well (today was a [...]

Bldg 53 Fort Hancock, NJ

Originally uploaded by MissMelysse.

As much as I love to browse through catalogs with sections on gifts for her and tell my husband what cool things he should get me for my next birthday, or for Christmas, or just because, the reality is that sometimes the best gifts are intangible.
On Monday, [...]