MissMeliss | January 7, 2010
Just a brief note to thank Jette and Chip for giving us Holidailies to jump start our muses when the twinkling lights and family dramas threaten to flatten our creativity. I haven’t been as post-y this year as I generally am, but that’s been true of blogging in general, not merely this meme. In any [...]
MissMeliss | January 6, 2010
I changed my blog template today. It’s a stock template from the wordpress.org collection, but I liked the light, airy colors and the bright, happy flowers, and the crumpled paper background. It feels clean and new, and even if it is the work of some stranger I may never interact with, it suits the mood [...]
MissMeliss | January 5, 2010
And so we’ve come to the end of another holiday season. The lawn guy – who is also the light guy – came yesterday to remove the Christmas lights from my house, and tonight we’ll be taking down the tree. I didn’t post about favorite ornaments this year. I add a few new ones each [...]
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 3, 2010
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show. ~Andrew Wyeth With my major income-earning writing gig officially in a post-layoff/holiday induced sort of limbo, I’m straining hard to find a [...]
MissMeliss | January 3, 2010
I say… And you think… ? 365 :: days Tombstone :: Arizona Dumb :: animal Intrusive :: question Fat :: quarter Axe :: murderer Planned :: Parenthood Spike :: Drusilla Bleach :: blonde Shopkeeper :: Henry’s I don’t usually explain my responses, but Henry’s is – or was – the corner store in Georgetown, CO. [...]
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 30, 2009
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 [...]
MissMeliss | December 30, 2009
I don’t generally post pictures of my dogs purely for the “awww” factor, but in this case, I have to. This is Pericles (Perry). He’s a long hair Chihuahua mix, and his fur feels like chenille. Earlier this evening, while Fuzzy and I were sitting in the dining room, playing Phase 10 with my parents, [...]
MissMeliss | December 28, 2009
My mother no longer drinks real coffee. By “real” of course I mean “the kind with actual caffeine,” and not “the kind that comes in cans with plastic lids.” She still prefers freshly ground, whole-bean coffee, she just wants it completely unleaded, sans milk or sugar. I suspect, if there were a way she could [...]
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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