I came face-to-face with my early writing, ironically at the precise moment in time when all my online work disappeared into cyberspace! I recently sold my house in Massachusetts. Although I’d started decluttering years before, emptying out my house forced me — as my astute and dear friend Bertha reminded me — to “put your […]
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How to Not Write
This piece has been rewritten and edited, emailed and critiqued more times than I can remember. This is the 2015 version. Since it was the first post I published on melindablau.com, it seemed fitting to trot it out again for this site’s resurrection! January 8, 2015. For weeks, I agonized about this first post. And […]
Kugel and Pork
Conventional wisdom dictates that headlines should not be obscure or cute. If “Kugel and Pork” leaves you wondering what this piece is about, I apologize. I just couldn’t resist. I have an affinity to such pairings. Once I commissioned a photographer to do a shoot using challah and a jar of Hellman’s — a wedding gift […]
I Am Old…and You Don’t Listen
As I was posting this, I remembered “Hello in There,” a Bette Midler song I played over and over in the early 70s. As it turns out, the lyrics were written by John Prine when he was only 25: “…So if you’re walking down the street sometime, and spot some hollow ancient eyes, please don’t just pass ’em by […]