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Eloquence as Legacy

My mother Victoria took prolific notes. Her handwriting was an elegant cursive, quite different from my chicken scratch (that even I have difficulty deciphering sometimes). She penned lovely postcards during her travels. Clever greeting cards…

MelindaJuly 1, 2024

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Mutha

I’m so pleased to share two poems that were published today in Mutha Magazine. These two are part of the full-length poetry book I’ve been working on for years. I finally finished the manuscript in January,…

MelindaMay 23, 2024

Family Healing Hope Love Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

Mother

Today I honor the universal quality of benevolent mothering. Happy Mother’s Day to all the women who exemplify mama energy, whether they have their own children or not. You….we…make the world go ’round! Mother…

MelindaMay 12, 2024

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting

More Autism Awareness

For many folks on the autism spectrum, medical encounters are fraught with anxiety and fear. Sensory issues, limited ability to understand procedures and express themselves, the speed at which things are expected to proceed, traumatic…

MelindaApril 9, 2024

Autism Bink Family Love Parenting Poem Poetry

These Monikered Months

A month of daffodils is upon us. Yay, spring!! April has been branded both Autism Awareness Month and National Poetry Month. Here you go, then, a post that covers both. I’ve shared this poem before,…

MelindaApril 2, 2024

Family Love Nature Parenting Poem Poetry

Farther

I’m so pleased that my poem, “Farther”, which I share with you below, was just published in the Spring 2024 issue of Metonym Literary Journal. Metonym is a print journal, available for sale through their…

MelindaMarch 14, 2024

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Parenting Poetry Writing

Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

An older painting I did of Bink stimming at the beach. Agita Sometimes I think there four of us making a life inside this sweet gray house. Add the felines, we make a quirky…

MelindaFebruary 28, 2024

Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Writing

A Tale of Two Motorists

Poem for the Pissed-Off Driver I have a third eye that sees beyond your scowl, man-behind -the-wheel who couldn’t bear to wait when I slowed to turn right and so zoomed past, horn blaring,…

MelindaFebruary 20, 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

Death and Dying Family Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Rhyming to Death

I started writing poetry when I was 8 or 9. My first notebooks were full of rhyme, crude as it may have been. Over the years my writing morphed into rambling narrative free verse. From…

MelindaSeptember 20, 2023

More Autism Awareness

These Monikered Months

Farther

Anxiety, the unwelcome house guest (who never seems to leave).

Rhyming to Death

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