Blog Archive – Melinda Coppola

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

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

Autism Bink Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Parenting Writing Yogabilities™

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

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

Cats Death and Dying Family Healing Hope Love Meditation Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

All by way of saying…

To hear me read this, click below: This poem was published last week in Last Stanza Poetry Journal, a beautiful publication available here: Listen Sharing my home with four-legged Zen masters— liquid beings…

MelindaOctober 22, 2024

Autism Bink Family Parenting Poem Poetry Women's Issues Writing

Half Full

If I were to update my resume, my longest running position would be caregiver. I'm a veteran at this point, and like others who have been caring for a loved one at home for decades,…

MelindaOctober 16, 2024

Healing Mindfulness Nature Poem Writing

Apple Days

To hear me read this, click here: Don’t groan. There is room for another apple poem. No one is counting how many have been penned, sung, stamped into books and magazines. There is no…

MelindaOctober 2, 2024

Death and Dying Hope Mindfulness Nature

The Turning

Gratitude for Autumn Leaves, Walking Today, in my silence, I can hear late September speaking with New England tongues to my open hands. Gratitude blossoms in colors; green and yellow, early russet and flaming orange.…

MelindaSeptember 30, 2024

Death and Dying Family Healing Hope Love Mindfulness Nature Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

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

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

The View from the Couch

The Sweet Complications of Living in a Body

Dreams

Apple Days

The Turning

Oh, baby!

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