Melina Meador
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...
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Melina Meador
- Oct 18, 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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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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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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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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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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Melina Meador
- Feb 25, 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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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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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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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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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...
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Melina Meador
- Jan 9, 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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Melina Meador
- Dec 24, 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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Melina Meador
- Jul 16, 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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