Melinda Blau

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Will You Miss Me? – Wife to Husband, circa 1968

October 6, 2018 by Melinda Blau

This post was first published in 2015.  I was reminded of it recently after seeing “This One’s For the Girls,” a review of women’s loves and lives told through music.*  Will You Miss Me? Do you think about me when you’re writing contracts Or on the tennis court When you’re walking to the office Or selling […]

To Hell and (I’m) Back

September 27, 2018 by Melinda Blau

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 […]

How to Not Write

September 14, 2018 by Melinda Blau

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

September 12, 2018 by Melinda Blau

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 […]

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