MissMeliss: Escribition

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 way [...]

…to figure out why my wireless won’t work in Vista (except in safe mode) which, believe me, is only slightly less difficult than finding cheap prices at new york hotels – something which was so daunting that it was one of the reasons we opted to stay in New Jersey during our visit there in [...]

I think this inner ear/labyrinthitis thing has finally seen all the exit signs and even taken the off-ramp, because while I’m still feeling a bit woozy and off-kilter – a bit too hyper, a bit disconnected, and too easily tired – I’ve actually just finished a day that was entirely vertigo- and nausea-free.
It began [...]

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, [...]

Nothing inspires fast weight loss like a formal occasion, and while my aunt’s wedding was more simple and elegant than truly formal, most of the guests were dressed to the nines.
Saturday morning began with too little caffeine, and too much to do. A friend of my aunt’s – Annie – who has a knack [...]

I am in a glow-y pink bedroom room in a 100-year-old house on the border of East Hampton and Amagansett, wrapped in a down comforter and flannel pajamas, sitting in a 100-year-old iron-frame bed, with down pillows behind me, wishing fervently that I’d not only purchased the Amish fireplace ripoff that I saw in Big [...]

Arrived SFO yesterday.
Walked to Hyde St. to get muni pass. They were closed.
Brunched with Clay, at Mama’s on Washington Square, where we both had the French Toast sampler, and we split a side of bacon and a side of home fries.
Hung out in the park talking, until a scary old guy decided that 62 degrees [...]

I’ve been in a blue funk for most of the week, though I came out of it for a bit last night during an unexpected thunderstorm. There was brilliant lightning and intense rain, and though the storm itself was here and gone within about 45 minutes, it was a refreshing change from sun and sun [...]

I’ve always enjoyed reading travel guides, and over the past few days, I’ve had a lot of time to explore online versions of Frommer’s and Fodor’s among others, but when I think of travel books, really, my brain first goes to a series of mystery novels written by the man who invented Paddington Bear.
The novels, [...]

After two weeks in Hong Kong building out a new client’s data farm and stringing miles and miles of CAT5e cable in fashion colors, my husband is finally on the first leg of his journey back home.
Actually, he’s been on it for about 90 minutes, and he texted me before take-off that it was, “…a [...]