Melinda Blau

Writer, Speaker, Social Observer

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Isn’t it Time to Love Your (Naturally) Changing Face?

January 22, 2025 by Melinda Blau 2 Comments

So much more than vanity is at stake! August 10, 2024, me at 80, at “The Wisdom Whisperers” book party on Fire Island. Photo by Susan Kravitz Now and Then…It happens to all of us. Accepting your aging/changing appearance is key to a good life. Neither is easy. I made peace with my changing body before I felt […]

8 Sensible Strategies to Reduce Pre-Travel Anxiety

June 13, 2021 by Melinda Blau

Advice from me to me — that you might find useful, too.  This piece also appears on Medium. 11 June 2021: My Dream I am frazzled and not yet packed. With me are two young women I know from the dog park. We went to the French Open, Roland Garros, two days earlier. I wonder what they’re doing in […]

I Don’t Usually Yell at Other Writers

May 29, 2021 by Melinda Blau

But I Can’t Keep My Mouth Shut Any Longer This piece is also on Medium   Something is very wrong with the punctuation used in the sentence below. I’ve seen many errors like this one on Medium and elsewhere on line: It often sounds like “good vibes only” or “just be positive”. The source of this […]

What Happens When You Switch from Writing to Painting?

May 28, 2021 by Melinda Blau

Hint: the voices quiet — and you slow down This piece also appears on Medium   …even more important than the painting we make is what happens to us when we make it. — Jerry Fresia, “The Real Reason We Paint” Past truths can be nudged out of hiding unexpectedly. I recently read a piece, […]

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