by Mel | Feb 23, 2014 | Friends who rock, Life, Random thoughts
Over the years, I have learned that keeping the words working means doing stuff that makes the muse happy. Last year I didn’t get to knit much at all due to the vertigo and hurting my wrist (skillz, I have them), so the muse has been missing her colour fix. My...
by Mel | Feb 15, 2014 | Life, Writing
I seem to have gained some new followers around the various places I play lately, so thought I might start doing a semi-regular post to catch folks up on who I am, what I do and what I’m working on. Thus, the inaugural State of the Mel. Who am I? I’m...
by Mel | Feb 8, 2014 | Cool stuff, Life
Over January I did a big declutter/house revamp following along with Apartment Therapy’s January Cure. Decluttering is good for the soul and the muse and I swear, my house feels twice as big as it did and new again. Now the challenge is keeping up the systems to...
by Mel | Jan 13, 2014 | Life, Random thoughts, Writing
Yesterday was the 7th anniversary of Crossed Wires! Granted last year wasn’t my best blogging year ever but oh well. I was going to post yesterday but was finishing the copy edits for The Wolf Within (which hopefully will be available in a week or so) and...
by Mel | Dec 1, 2013 | Life
I have been guilty of neglecting my garden for a while. The summer before last I broke my ankle and last summer I was settling into a new day job (and had been thinking about doing some landscaping that got put on hold for various reasons) so didn’t really do...
by Mel | Oct 12, 2013 | Life, Random thoughts
So I have been an absent blogger. Bad Mel. But I have a decent excuse because not long after my last post I developed a case of vertigo that has been limiting my screen time so that I’ve had to spend it on day job and writing mostly. Also limiting reading time...