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Over a Cuppa: Fifteen (of daylights and night times)

Posted on November 14, 2025November 14, 2025 by Melissa

Hi, Hey, Hello! Goodness, I’m so happy to see you on this beautiful Autumn day! How the heck are you?! What can I get started for you? I’m brewing up some black tea with milk and honey (obviously) but also have coffee or any herbal tea your heart could desire as well as some apple…

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Beyond the Pages – A Notebook Meeting

Posted on July 9, 2025April 16, 2026 by Melissa

As someone who loves to document as much as possible about life, I was very intrigued to come across Carolyn Yoo’s recent Substack about her Techo Kaigi, “notebook meeting”. Maybe it’s the writer or the family historian in me, but the idea of sitting with each journal, planner, and notebook currently in use and really…

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Currently: February 2025

Posted on February 16, 2025April 15, 2026 by Melissa

Isn’t it absolutely wild how the world at large can feel like a dumpster fire while one’s own life can float along rather smoothly? I am/we are, doing well. Life is good. And yet, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop because despite my own personal bubble, there is no true separation between…

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Eggs (Laughing Along With a Limerick)

Posted on February 11, 2025April 15, 2026 by Melissa

The old lady harvests eggs each day While her hens at seed peck away. In hand right now, only four (?!) With hopes tomorrow they’ll lay more, While the goats watch on, munching hay. I’m not sure I’ve ever written a limerick before, despite my decades of reading and writing poetry. However, when I stumbled…

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