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 […]

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 […]

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 […]