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    Carniceria
    Melina Meador
    • Oct 19, 2020
    • 3 min

    Carniceria

    The meat store was in a strange, rather derelict building that Jay and Mike thought would do just fine for a produce stand (Jay's Farm...
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    Home Assessment 5.27.20
    Melina Meador
    • May 28, 2020
    • 3 min

    Home Assessment 5.27.20

    I read a while back about how writing a narrative of your day is a great way to get a bird's eye view of how things are going in life;...
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    Manastash Run
    Melina Meador
    • Apr 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Manastash Run

    I was running for my life. No one would save me but these two legs, this quickly tiring heart, these heaving lungs. There was nothing...
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    Cleaning Out the File Cabinet
    Melina Meador
    • Mar 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Cleaning Out the File Cabinet

    Yesterday I tackled the file cabinet. It wasn't that it was so disorganized - just unused. It's still solid, outliving my needs. I...
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    Bravery (Or A Pot of Beans)
    Melina Meador
    • Mar 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Bravery (Or A Pot of Beans)

    Yesterday I made a huge pot of pinto beans. They simmered all day and made my home smell like my childhood - we ate a lot of beans...
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    Peanut Butter Falcon
    Melina Meador
    • Feb 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Peanut Butter Falcon

    I watched the movie last week and loved it. It's sticky, you know? Lots to think about. Art! It does that to ya. The thing that most...
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    An Actual Message in a Bottle
    Melina Meador
    • Feb 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    An Actual Message in a Bottle

    This morning on the beach I found a message in a bottle. I was head clear, eyes eating up the ocean view, and I stumbled over a small...
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    What I've Been Learning From Running
    Melina Meador
    • Feb 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    What I've Been Learning From Running

    Part of me laughed as I typed that title. Me? A runner? But I am. I am slow, and I am new to the running journey but I am a runner. And I...
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    Wednesday Afternoon
    Melina Meador
    • Jan 29, 2020
    • 1 min

    Wednesday Afternoon

    A ziploc bag of spaghetti sauce sags on the counter, slowly defrosting until I pour it out onto noodles for dinner. I've been reading...
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    Marks
    Melina Meador
    • Jan 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Marks

    Things leave their marks on us. While I had a handsome baby boy in November, I still look a bit pregnant. My Dad survived a heart attack...
    164 views0 comments
    Four Books I Loved in 2019
    Melina Meador
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Four Books I Loved in 2019

    In 2018 I posted on my favorite books of the year and I had a long list, with quotes and everything. But I didn't have a sweet, huggable...
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    2019 Review
    Melina Meador
    • Dec 25, 2019
    • 2 min

    2019 Review

    The year is not over yet, I know. But I'm in full on reflection mode and I'll probably write more on the year over the next two...
    56 views0 comments
    When Someone Plays to Help
    Melina Meador
    • Nov 5, 2019
    • 2 min

    When Someone Plays to Help

    Throughout my teen years I had a good family friend with whom I occasionally played tennis. He was a fantastic tennis player and helped...
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    Paper Linings
    Melina Meador
    • Oct 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    Paper Linings

    Ikea and I met afresh after a long hiatus last week. I came home laden with useful things: matching spice jars (I have had a spice jar...
    65 views1 comment
    Bad Dreams
    Melina Meador
    • Sep 16, 2019
    • 2 min

    Bad Dreams

    Sometime in the early morning Samantha had a nightmare. She said it was about sharks. I had been having a nightmare until I heard her...
    62 views1 comment
    Grandma Doris (Apron)
    Melina Meador
    • Sep 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Grandma Doris (Apron)

    I am enjoying being part of a writing group. We set out some practices for ourselves this summer where we pick a word and then free write...
    97 views1 comment
    Sowing and Reaping
    Melina Meador
    • Aug 20, 2019
    • 1 min

    Sowing and Reaping

    "And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time." Ellie Wiesel in Memoirs Mr. Wiesel is an author and holocaust survivor. I'm...
    33 views0 comments
    Glamming.
    Melina Meador
    • Jul 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Glamming.

    Dale and I had fancy drinks and sushi at a rooftop bar in Bellevue on Saturday night. It had been a dream of mine since I'd heard about...
    84 views0 comments
    Summer Pregnancy
    Melina Meador
    • Jul 17, 2019
    • 1 min

    Summer Pregnancy

    Well, feeling the baby halfway through this pregnancy is awesome. I sit down in my bedroom reading chair and lift my big legs onto the...
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    Blackberries
    Melina Meador
    • Jun 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Blackberries

    One mid-July evening, when the jewel colors of the Chehalis and Wishkah rivers and the hills of Douglas Firs sparkle their brightest, Dad...
    83 views0 comments
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