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In the Old Country

Tell Me About Yours I grew up hearing snippets about the old country, good Balkan land where my grandparents sprouted and bloomed. Families slept pressed together under rug-like coverlets to ward off frigid winters in…

MelindaJuly 14, 2026

Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Poem Spirituality Writing

We can choose where our attention goes…

Why Not? What if we got our breaking news from morning dream circles with 10 of our closest neighbors? Around a fire, say, with eyes and hearts attuned to the unguarded loveliness that spills from…

MelindaJune 17, 2026

Mindfulness Nature Poem Spirituality

On Turkeys and Traffic and TIme

I'm taking a break from promoting my new book this morning to extoll the power of a pause. We humans do tend to plow into the middle of things in our self-important haste to get…

MelindaOctober 23, 2025

Art Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Parenting

Reach for the Bus Crayon

The Bus Crayon There will be a morning you won’t reach for the black rectangle with the white apple on its face. You won’t instruct your finger to slide…

MelindaJuly 30, 2025

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When God is a Bird

This one is for the mothers. When God is a Bird The feeders out back bring more color this month— goldfinches blossoming from marsh-like greeny gray to forsythia yellow, a red-winged blackbird flashing…

MelindaMay 11, 2025

Death and Dying Healing Hope Nature Spirituality

Through the Window

Through the Window New buds adorn the ratty something-or-other bush. Does it mind being unnamed? No, comes the echo of an answer. My life outside your window does not revolve around what you might call…

MelindaApril 21, 2025

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My Drawing Told Me To Tell You

Hello out there! My recovery from foot surgery is going well. I’ve spent some of the “couch time” making little colored pencil drawings. Shortly after I finished them (and like so many things in my…

MelindaJanuary 25, 2025

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Up and Out

Up and Out More garrulous gazing at the navel of the world. It was morning, one of a long string of them spent on the couch, post-surgical leg consistently elevated. My eyes lifted to my…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2025

Healing Hope Mindfulness Nature Writing

When releasing perfectionism, rivers pour forth.

This morning, on the couch. Cast-bound leg duly elevated, I was contemplating the merits of ice pack vs. heat for the unhappy shoulder/neck. I’ve been working on surrender as fighting the pain has been futile.…

MelindaDecember 25, 2024

Autism Bink Family Hope Parenting

Dreams

Field notes from this family’s mornings Bink and I have many rituals. They’ve shifted over time and we’ve been able to let go of some of them. Others stay in place and bring her comfort…

MelindaNovember 25, 2024

My Drawing Told Me To Tell You

Up and Out

Dreams

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