MissMeliss | January 3, 2009
Because I’m tired, cranky, and my knee is throbbing:
- Slept til 12:30. Or really almost one. Spent fifteen minutes figuring out which pants fit with knee brace. Went out in public (well, the salon) in really big t-shirt and stretch pants, choosing comfort over style. And sneakers. Yay sneakers.
- Spent four hours [...]
MissMeliss | December 16, 2008
A 2008 Best of Holidailies Selection. Thanks, Holidailies Reviewers!
That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
~Charles DeLint
The Cafe Writing Holiday Project asks us to write about seven magical things in our world…
Plastic Christmas Trees: Fresh from the box, they look every [...]
MissMeliss | November 20, 2008
Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
~George Savile
Louisa May Alcott wrote, in Jo March’s voice, of the treasure boxes Jo and her sisters kept in the attic. Part real, and part metaphor, these collected the essence of each of the four “Little Women.”
“Jo” [...]
MissMeliss | November 8, 2008
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
– Samuel Johnson
In improvisation, one of our exercises is a game called “Seven Things,” in which we go around in a circle giving each other the challenge, “Give me seven things that [whatever].” We are not going [...]