I was searching for some blogging inspiration today, but it found me instead. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but I want to tell you the story about why I love floor-spiced Goldfish. Once upon a time, I was living in a townhouse with my fami…
Birthday Hell Week has come to an end. Three birthdays in six days requiring cakes (not that I did those, but its still pressure, yo), presents, and the rest of the festivities (oh, wait, I don’t do those stupid huge parties anymore)… but, …
Yes, that means you, spammers. There are days when you flatter me with your words, and days when I want to thump you in the robotic nads. But, what really gets me more than anything is when you all tell me the EXACT SAME THING on EACH BLOG that I own, …
A few years ago, I decided that once I had time, I was going to volunteer at our local abused women’s shelter. I had actually been waiting a while for this, and thought it would be great if I could help the women who use the shelter’s servi…
Women. Suck. While I realize that as the #1742 feminist on the Internets, that’s a hard statement to take (or, maybe its just hard for me to take, but whatever) coming from the Great Melia, but honestly… my heart is breaking vicariously for…
The author Ted Andrews, famous for his books including Animal-Speak and Animal-Wise. He speaks about totems that we Fear. He notes that animals that we fear or that create discomfort in us are animals we should study more closely. These are often some of our most important teachers, animals who show us how to conquer [...]
I’ve always been attracted to the pirate archetype. Not real pirates, the kind who actually go around looting and raping and pillaging, although I may well have some of those lurking on the decaying branches of my family tree, whose ragged leaves…
I have a lot going on and between home, work, kids and now volunteering, its been difficult to keep my head in one place. My head keeps telling me it wants to be on my pillow, but no, that will never do. There is far too much going on for sleep… …
In order to have good recall it is necessary to be able to identify things clearly and accurately, to label them correctly, to file them in the right place and to cross index where necessary; to file them efficiently for reference and retrieval when it is required. To carry out this organizational task, we have [...]
