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Help Your Young Children Build Their Interior Lives
What happens in your mind when you leave the podcast off and go for a drive? A run? A walk? That's your interior life and it's valuable...
Melina Meador
Feb 27, 20202 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Feb 25, 20201 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Feb 20, 20202 min read
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Home Assessment 2.3.2020
I recently read 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; for...
Melina Meador
Feb 10, 20205 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Feb 6, 20201 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Jan 29, 20201 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Jan 22, 20201 min read
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Home Assessment 1.11.2020
I recently read 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; for...
Melina Meador
Jan 11, 20203 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Jan 9, 20201 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Dec 24, 20192 min read
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Perspective
You ask too much. I thought these words at some point in the night. They were spoken with a mental pointing finger in an accusing tone. I...
Melina Meador
Nov 12, 20191 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Nov 5, 20192 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Oct 22, 20192 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Sep 16, 20192 min read
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Beautiful Evenings
So much has been written about morning and evening routines. I heartily acknowledge they matter and that is why I am unhappy with my...
Melina Meador
Sep 10, 20192 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Sep 3, 20191 min read
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Revolutionize Your Day With This Tool
This is for everyone but especially the stay-at-home-moms and homemakers of the world: here is the oomph you need to thrive today. And...
Melina Meador
Aug 28, 20192 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Aug 20, 20191 min read
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River
There is a certain smell that can only be a river. Freshwater, pungent, earth-laced, mossy, cool, wet – all these can be tasted as I walk...
Melina Meador
Jul 31, 20192 min read
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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...
Melina Meador
Jul 23, 20191 min read
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