Letting go

Art Death and Dying Love Meditation Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

She Runs On

She Runs On and On, and On A whole lot of nothing happening here in the Department of Creation of New Poems, and so I sat down with DETERMINATION and began to write, the…

MelindaJune 20, 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

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

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

Death and Dying Family Love Meditation Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Integration

It has been almost a month since my mother passed. It wasn’t unexpected. She was old and ill and tired. She wanted to go, was impatient with the way those final months seemed to drag…

MelindaNovember 16, 2021

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Parenting Spirituality

WALKING HER HOME

Adrift. That’s the word that floated into my teary vision as I sat in my car outside the facility my mother has resided in for the past seven years. These after-visit pauses have become part…

MelindaAugust 30, 2021

Death and Dying Love Meditation Mindfulness Poem Poetry Spirituality Writing

Conversations with a Ghost

A Dead Friend Speaks Almost a year into my exit from flesh, what we call, when embodied, death, You talk to me, wonder if I help when you struggle and worry, soothe when you rage…

MelindaJune 15, 2021

Autism Bink Poem Poetry Writing

A little more “Pub Cred”.

One of my goals as a creative person is to put more of my work out into the world. If writing and art-making gets short shrift in the bigger picture of my life as Bink's…

MelindaJanuary 6, 2021

Art Cairns Cats Death and Dying Love Mindfulness Nature Poem Poetry Spirituality Women's Issues Writing

Little Altars Everywhere

My home is host to little altars everywhere honoring lives lived, seasons arriving and leaving, the hundred sparks of grace and wonder, sorrow and understanding that pock and foliate hours and years squeezed into the…

MelindaDecember 29, 2020

Autism Bink Family Love Mindfulness Parenting Poem Poetry Writing

Notes from a Parallel Universe

I've written a fair amount about life with my adult child. As I plod ever so slowly towards creating a book about the journey, it occurs to me that the pace at which I'm working…

MelindaNovember 12, 2020