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Watching Shakespeare Plays With Children
This current school year I've been watching Shakespeare with our three children - ages 8, 6, and 4. It is selfish in some ways because I...
Melina Meador
Apr 16, 20244 min read
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Best Reads of 2022
It is so much fun to review a year of reading for me. How about you? Whether you got through a handful or a hundred, the practice of...
Melina Meador
Jan 8, 20232 min read
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Searching for What's In Front of Us
I think humans are great at overlooking the obvious. It's the blindspots of life that will get ya, every time. I see what I want to see...
Melina Meador
Nov 21, 20222 min read
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One Life Changing Practice
For almost six years Dale and I have been meeting weekly. This isn't a date; let's call it a mashup of business meeting and emotional...
Melina Meador
Oct 31, 20222 min read
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Myself at Ten Years Old
One of my sisters celebrated a birthday last week, and it reminded me of the very day she was born. I was ten and a half. I was eager and...
Melina Meador
Oct 24, 20221 min read
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Tuna - love it or hate it?
As I am thinking about cheap and healthy food and stretching the grocery budget, I think of tuna. Oh tuna. How do you feel about this...
Melina Meador
Jun 14, 20222 min read
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Cheap and Healthy
With rising food costs I've been thinking about how much homemade food is a bargain. But it takes knowledge, planning ahead, shopping in...
Melina Meador
Jun 6, 20222 min read
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Clean Living: Never Too Late
Well, clean living is such a trend and I am years late, in a sense, to jump on the bandwagon. On the other hand, the renewed interest in...
Melina Meador
Mar 16, 20223 min read
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2021 Reading Thoughts
I so enjoyed the books I read in 2021 - hardly a dud in there! This was the first year that I read more non-fiction than fiction - by one...
Melina Meador
Jan 19, 20224 min read
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Ways to Support Your Running Habit
Supporting your running habit amongst the busy demands of life takes concentration. It's fantastic though because the high of running...
Melina Meador
Dec 10, 20213 min read
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Running Around the Outside of the House
Back when school began I was looking for the right way to begin our formal school hours. I had heard of people playing the same song each...
Melina Meador
Nov 17, 20212 min read
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Identifying Pain Points
I've been helped lately by figuring out where the "sticky" parts of life are and writing them down in detail to help solve them. When I...
Melina Meador
Nov 6, 20213 min read
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Little Kindnesses
I picked up Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte last week from the library. From the first page it is fresh and alive with excitement and...
Melina Meador
Jul 14, 20212 min read
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Trail Running a Half Marathon
I started to jog as soon as the director set our small group of runners off: "On your mark"and the loping rhythm of people falling into...
Melina Meador
Apr 22, 20212 min read
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Losing Wildness: A Tribute
Our backyard has been the size of three city lots but will soon be reduced to a modest strip of grass, a small garden area, a good-sized...
Melina Meador
Mar 8, 20212 min read
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Nourishing My Running Life
I've been training for a half marathon for nearly three months. I'm looking at six weeks and a day to race day. I'm pumped! I'm awed and...
Melina Meador
Mar 5, 20212 min read
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Giving Each Other Room
While it is only March 2nd, Ellensburg is being honored with an early Spring. All the earth feels the swelling out, the tremble of weeds...
Melina Meador
Mar 2, 20212 min read
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Boldly Building
I am thinking these days about living less in my head and more near the ground, more humbly interested in the small tasks of life. I have...
Melina Meador
Jan 27, 20213 min read
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A Mini Habit to Make Stillness Part of Your Daily Life
"Because he knew no quiet within him, he does not retain anything he desires." Job 20:20 "Solitude, stillness, and silence are the...
Melina Meador
Jan 11, 20212 min read
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Generosity
Yesterday I had a casual conversation with an old man named Ken. He was selling tree tops that were as large as Christmas trees and I,...
Melina Meador
Dec 11, 20202 min read
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