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The Color of Swans

Hello out there! The blog has been quiet this summer, but I've been editing and submitting work to a wide range of literary journals. My submissions practice has been haphazard and sporadic over the past…

MelindaAugust 13, 2022

Autism Death and Dying Family Love Mindfulness Nature Spirituality Writing

A Little Bullish

I know, I know. Much is not right here in the world. We conjure and raise up hatreds and fears born of misconceptions. We bow down to profit and convention instead of the goodness in…

MelindaJune 23, 2022

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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

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All This Joy, All This Sorrow

Monday, March 28, morning. It’s snowing as I write this. Big, fluffy flakes that arrive past the date of our northern hemisphere Spring equinox. I wonder if they know they won't accumulate. If they did…

MelindaMarch 28, 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

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Accepting Autism

Ten years ago, April was designated Autism Awareness month. April 2 is World Autism Awareness day. There has been a movement towards renaming both of these, replacing awareness with acceptance . Robert Frost wrote," Always…

MelindaApril 1, 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

Poem Poetry Writing

When the Beginning is also the Ending

I haven't done a lot with poetic forms. Something inside of me chafes at the notion of trying to fit the body of a poem, beating heart and all, into a prescribed number of lines…

MelindaSeptember 15, 2020

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Gifts and Visitations

It’s been just over a month since my dear friend and soul sister Marina died, after a quick and nasty tussle with appendiceal cancer. She visits my consciousness daily, in ways both fleeting and substantial.…

MelindaJuly 31, 2020

The Color of Swans

She Runs On

Integration

A little more “Pub Cred”.

When the Beginning is also the Ending

Gifts and Visitations

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