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  • Better With Art

    Overcoming fear & anxiety with… curiosity

    / March 10, 2024

    Welcome to Better With Art. I’m Melinda and I’m here to encourage you to reclaim your creativity and practice creative self-care with weekly small-art prompts that can be done in an art journal…

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  • #My100DayArtJournal,  #The100DayProject,  Snapshots

    A Woman Was Sad Yesterday…

    / February 15, 2022

    A woman was sad yesterday. She took to the woods. And that sent me to my pen.

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  • Snapshots

    Not the only one who has been lost

    / November 21, 2021

    I lost myself for a while. Before I'd really figured out who I was. I lost myself in the dark...

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  • Identity,  Snapshots,  Writing

    Another summer winding down

    / September 3, 2021

    Let's call this end-of-summer-depressed writer. I have the accoutrements... Short story collection. Moody music. Notebook and writing implement. Old baggy t-shirt and comfy sweats. But let me share some encouragement, too, while I…

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  • Snapshots

    Anyway…

    / April 19, 2020

    That’s a phrase I use a lot... A transition. Or braking to shift gears, or make a turn...

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  • Snapshots

    For What

    / November 15, 2019

    I stare at the screen. I stare at nothing. My head is full of leaden cotton. Heavy. Muffled. I want to sleep. I need to wake. But for what? 

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  • Blog,  Identity

    And I Know I’m at Least a Little Awesome…

    / October 4, 2019

    The questions caught me off-guard. Got me thinking about what I meant when I said I was whole...

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  • Blog,  Identity,  Memoir

    Burning Words

    / August 2, 2019

    Words... So many words. Heavy. Laden with the weight of... me... What could I do with them?

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