Melinda Blau

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To My First Readers: An Offer You Can’t Refuse

January 25, 2025 by Melinda Blau 1 Comment

Build a book club and I will come! I’m serious.  I’m a writer, and writers like to be read. (Perhaps not all do — this is conjecture; I can’t think of any.) Even more, writers like to hear others talk about their work. You don’t have to be part of an ongoing  group to get […]

Writing/Podcasting/Nurturing Our Relationship: Heartfelt Stories, Hard-Won Lessons, and Humor

January 13, 2023 by Melinda Blau

  Where the hell have you been, Melinda? Quick answer: NOT poolside. I’ve been publishing my work on Medium and recently added podcasting/writing to my resume (as guest and host).  Checking in with you now and more regularly, I hope, will better our relationship. For a while now, I haven’t posted stories here and there. […]

Tired of Fighting About Household Chores?

June 2, 2021 by Melinda Blau

The Winning Strategy That Will Save Your Relationship This post also appears on Medium “When Cleaning Windows,” 1943. Photo by Austrian National Library on Unsplash   A Half-Century of Chore Wars It all started in the 70s, the result of that new-fangled notion of “gender equity.”  Before that, men and women had defined roles.  Mothers […]

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