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Hope Mindfulness Nature Parenting Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

To hell, to hell with this dry well

(To confront writers block, she) Mixed metaphors. Now I understand it was never about the others. Not their timeline, their values. Not the scripts we were fed about how to be and behave in this…

MelindaDecember 2, 2025

Healing Hope Meditation Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Yoga

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

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The View from the Couch

The View from the Couch Day 18 of a projected 56 before my left sole can again greet the floor. Shoulder and neck—also left side—still quite cranky and challenging my intention to be positive and…

MelindaDecember 30, 2024

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

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The Sweet Complications of Living in a Body

Trigger warning: I'm incurably wordy. On a Friday morning approximately 11 days ago, I had surgery on my left foot. "A big one”, the excellent podiatrist/surgeon calls it. No weight bearing for 8 weeks. A…

MelindaDecember 23, 2024

Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Hush

I'm pleased that my poem, " Hush", was published in Amethyst Review today. Hush Is it by aging alone that I landed in this sparse, harsh forest, where most branches are sharp, all bark…

MelindaJune 8, 2023

Death and Dying Mindfulness Nature Women's Issues Writing

A 2022 Story

There was a little stream—more of a rivulet, really—that dribbled and dripped and murmured along through a swath of untamed land. Many moons and suns cast their light upon her waters as she found…

MelindaDecember 31, 2022

Family Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

What’s in a name? More pub cred, musings

Mid-April already? Time is such a liquid concept. Today, my already may be your finally. It is already April? Finally, it is spring. In February, my finally was louder than my already. Finally, Winter has…

MelindaApril 12, 2022

Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Saved

It is a blessing to find those things that save us in small ways. At the checkout counter a teenaged boy offered to carry groceries for an old couple. They said yes, and I…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2022

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