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So many ways to say it

Hello out there! So many ways to say it. Be present. Our time here with each other on this glorious planet is fleeting. How do you want to spend what you've been allotted? I had…

MelindaJuly 7, 2026

Family Love Parenting Poem Uncategorized Women's Issues Writing

Oh, baby!

I've just had five poems published in the inaugural issue of The Turning Leaf Journal. Here's one of them. I wrote this the same day I went through a few old hat boxes in my…

MelindaJune 3, 2024

Family Parenting Singing Uncategorized

Pippi

For the most part, my childhood nourished my creativity and sense of wonder. I feel so fortunate to have come up in a time before cell phones and social media. My knowledge of screens…

MelindaNovember 11, 2023

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Uncategorized

Folliculi, Follicula

TEND and SAVOR “Why the hair is attached to the head it will not come out please respond to me in a video.” These were the first words Bink communicated to me today, shortly after…

MelindaJanuary 10, 2022

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry Singing Uncategorized Writing

Me and My Shadow Go to Market

It is May 2020, still early in The Covid Times. We take ourselves to the market, by which I mean our whole selves, me in my layers of self-consciousness— the run of the mill kind…

MelindaOctober 26, 2020

Art Cairns Nature Parenting Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

Per Annum

Every year, now, around my birthday, I feel a tug to write something, employing words to mark the privilege of completing another ride around the sun. This year’s efforts came in the form of a…

MelindaMay 27, 2018

Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

I'm pleased to share this poem, which made its debut yesterday, in the Songs of Eretz Poetry Journal. I've included my poet's notes, which that particular editor requires, as well as his comments. I'm grateful…

MelindaMarch 21, 2018

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Barry of the Wind

The Names Project, AIDS Memorial Quilt Have you ever dreamed someone alive again, someone long dead, whose memory visits rarely? Have you seen the watery shine of his eyes, smelled the shampoo lingering in her…

MelindaMarch 8, 2018

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Uncategorized Writing

7 AM, Redux

Dear Reader, I'm so pleased to share my first of three finalist poems from the Songs of Eretz poetry contest. Though I didn't win first place this year, each finalist poem is eligible for the…

MelindaFebruary 20, 2018

Poem Poetry Uncategorized Writing

Tenure

I offer you gifts of words newly strung and tender, strong and sometimes proud, words that are still humming with the cadence of my beating heart from which poems burst forth onto the page. I…

MelindaFebruary 8, 2018

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So many ways to say it

Oh, baby!

Folliculi, Follicula

Per Annum

Your Repose

Barry of the Wind

7 AM, Redux

Tenure

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