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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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World Labyrinth Day

Melissa
May 4, 2025May 25, 2025 No Comments

I enter, not knowing why I come, but needing a path. And so I follow, taking a breath at each turn of direction – letting my eyes follow my left index finger as I slowly trace the route. I have no question, so my mind falls into the Now, simply focused on the journey. I […]

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31 Days: Move

Melissa
October 15, 2016January 3, 2025 No Comments

After a long week, sometimes the hardest thing for me to do is to get moving on the weekend.  I’ve spent the entire workweek running crazy, multi-tasking so many things at once, that on the weekends my brain just decides to go on strike… and if that means I’m not getting going, well… that’s my […]

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31 Days/Five Minute Friday: Mail

Melissa
October 14, 2016January 3, 2025 No Comments

This week’s Prompt is:  MAIL Okay… had to laugh at this prompt.  Of all of the one word prompts for Five Minute Friday, the one about mail… one of my life-long obsessions, is the one that trips me up and puts me behind in keeping up with the 31 Day Challenge. (Fitting, isn’t it) So… […]

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A host of little things to discuss

Melissa
November 4, 2010March 30, 2025 No Comments

Can you believe it’s November already?  I’m honestly trying to figure out where the hell this year has gone.  I swear autumn lasted like two days.  Yes, I know it’s technically still autumn, but once that first killing frost hits and the remaining leaves on our trees fall in one big clump to the grass, […]

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Aaaaand the blog is back up and running!

Melissa
July 14, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

Honesty, the b.s. from Globat’s moves to new servers just finally pushed me into fixing things.  I’ve wanted to go to WordPress for a while because of the flexibility, but had dreaded transferring my entries over. Turns out, I didn’t need to worry – there was a very easy blogger to WP importer.  I do […]

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Stuffages

Melissa
May 15, 2009March 30, 2025 No Comments

I’d say not much has happened recently, but it has been a busy couple weeks. Just a blur of a couple weeks. The bad stuff: – Mom was laid off last Friday. It wasn’t completely unexpected, though. She works in real estate, and the company had been stripping off personnel all year. I left a […]

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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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  • Restoration: Day One
  • World Labyrinth Day
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