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Hi everyone - I'm Melissa, known as Measi online. I'm a married mom of one in her early 50s, owned by several cats, currently living in Rhode Island. I'm a cross-stitcher, journaler, penpaller, bookworm, Pagan, and gamer geek. This is my little corner of the Web.

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Restoration: Day Two

Melissa
May 24, 2025May 25, 2025 No Comments

Finding the balance between writing by hand and uploading to Substack will take me a little time to get used to – I apologize for not getting this up earlier. This is Day Two of the Restoration course from the Open Journal Club. The past week has been a bit wild. Honestly, May has just been […]

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Restoration: Day One

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May 12, 2025May 25, 2025 No Comments

A backstory first… in college, I took a semester course titled Zen Meditation. I had a couple toss-away credits that were paid for as part of my full time studies, and I decided to spend them between concert band and a random class to learn something completely unrelated to book academics. Of all of the […]

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Tap, Tap, Tap…

Melissa
May 1, 2025 2 Comments

Is this thing on? So a funny thing has happened this year. I had planned to do a lot of blogging, but have found myself gravitating toward my paper journal. And I’ve been writing a lot. I’ve filled an entire journal now in five months. While I’ve filled journals in the past, I’ve never done […]

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Life Update as Summer Comes to a Close

Melissa
September 3, 2023September 3, 2023 1 Comment

I haven’t kept up with my end-of-month stitching updates as I’d hoped for the past couple of months. While I work to sort out projects for status updates, I figured I’d do some life ones too. It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a non-stitchy blog post. 🙂 Max is a few days away […]

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April Stitching/Life Wrap Up

Melissa
May 1, 2023May 1, 2023 1 Comment

Considering how wild April was around here… I got quite a bit done on my projects! I’m happy. April’s short-short version, in no order of priority, are: And onto the April stitchy updates. The theme of this month was “frogging and move forward.” Oh, so much miscounting that had to be fixed to get anywhere. […]

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New Year’s Update 2023

Melissa
January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 4 Comments

Another year gone, a new one starting… and I feel like so much time gets lost. I rarely make resolutions for the new year because I feel that by saying them out loud, I tend to jinx them. Instead, I’m making some intentions – and the overall theme is to to some serious self-seeking. For […]

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So… I screwed up

Melissa
January 3, 2022 No Comments

Earlier today I was attempting to update my SSL certificate, and started messing around with other things – and then I deleted the SQL that held all 20 years of blog entries on my blog. (sigh). The good news is that I do have a backup of it – somewhere. The bad news is that […]

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Books on My List

Melissa
September 15, 2021September 3, 2023 No Comments

’m making a list of books that I’ve been wanting to read – partially to pull them out of Goodreads, partially for an exchange I’m going to be part of themed to Iceland’s wonderful holiday tradition of Jolabokaflod. I’m always up for other suggestions, too. I read a little bit of everything, although this list […]

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Quick Life Updates

Melissa
May 4, 2020January 16, 2022 No Comments

Taking a little time during my lunch break to catch up on some general writing, blogging, mini-project updates. I hope if you’re reading this that you’re doing well, and that your loved ones are doing well too. Things here are pretty good. We have a few friends we’re worried about, who are dealing with positive […]

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31 Days: Aware

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October 13, 2016January 3, 2025 No Comments

Since I was little, I’ve played a careful balance between two things – my natural introvert instincts, and the ability (although exhausting) to be social when needed.  I’m able to play the butterfly when I need to.  Put me in a writing environment like my blog or penpalling letters? I can go on for days. […]

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Hi, I'm Measi

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I'm turning 50 in 2025, and exploring this new decade of my life with a refocus on blogging about my life - marriage, parenthood, being owned by cats, Paganism, cross stitching, journaling, books, and letter writing... and probably some other stuff along the way. Nothing monetized here - just old-fashioned personal blogging.

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