I finished the first draft of my first novel!

A few weeks ago I sat at my kitchen counter and bid my husband good luck as he took our … More

Me and Happiness, We Don’t Always Trust One Another

Sometimes I wonder if I am the only person who can’t trust a good situation. I search for the other … More

Dear Future Melisa, Happy freaking birthday! I suppose I should feel some overwhelming joyous tingle but honestly, not many people … More

I’m trying to get ahead, when in actuality I’m running full force just trying to keep up. The list of … More

A glimmer of Spring. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD; how appropriate) suffers can rejoice when Spring starts to poke through the … More

Things in life have a tendency to pile up and then come raining down on us at unforgiving times. We … More