by Melinda | Jan 29, 2016 | Get Real, It's Not About Me, Listen and Learn, Living Low, Mimmie's Heart, Self Help
It was beautiful here yesterday. Unseasonably warm to the point that the gal across the street from my daughter’s house was washing her car in shorts and a tank top, her toddler “helping” in nothing but a diaper. Personally, I was very...
by Melinda | Jan 19, 2016 | Free Indeed, Get Real, He Knows Me, Healing Hearts, Self Help, Thankfulness, The Great Uncomfortable, Truth
Brody was asleep, and because Lilli was off school on Monday, the two of us spent his naptime hours together. We brought down some games from upstairs and jumped in with gusto. Girlfriend LOVES games. Toward the end of his naptime, and of the last game, she...
by Melinda | Jan 7, 2016 | Fear, Get Real, Hard Times, He's Bigger than Me, Living the God Life, Lover of My Soul, Mimmie's Heart, Motherhood
I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss something that is not often the topic of conversation, but must be mentioned from time to time. Poop. Yes, I really just wrote that. And, like I said, it’s not typically a hot topic at dinner parties...
by Melinda | Jan 5, 2016 | Get Real, Living in the Moment, Self Help, The Great Uncomfortable
I’ve been walking by it all month. Right off the garage, I’ve been forced to see it there, screaming a litany of what needs to be done. My desk (or catch-all, which is by far the more accurate term) has had neatish stacks of papers, statements, and...
by Melinda | Jan 4, 2016 | Christmas, Free Indeed, Get Real, Healing Hearts, Heart talk, Home on the Range, Life Abundant, Living Low
I have purging on the brain. I can think of nothing else, really, and feel almost like an expectant mother in the throes of nesting, such is my urgency. Every cabinet, every drawer, seemingly threatens to spill its contents at my feet upon every opening. I feel...
by Melinda | Dec 27, 2015 | Get Real, Health, Let's Eat, Listen and Learn, Self Help, The Great Uncomfortable
One of the side dishes I served for Christmas dinner was Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Reduction and Cranberries. They were delicious, and this is coming from the girl who hated them so much, growing up, that she faced down her father at dinner and was...
