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Letting Go of Living Vicariously

PerspectiveMelanie DaleSeptember 8, 2025melanie dale, fall2025part3 Comment

Cruise People

StorytellingMelanie DaleJune 9, 2025melanie dale, summer25part1 Comment

Calloused

PerspectiveMelanie DaleMarch 10, 2025melanie dale, spring25part3a Comment

The Bog Witch of Peachtree City

PerspectiveMelanie DaleSeptember 9, 2024melanie dale, aging, fall2024part2b, halloweenComment

Strong Over Skinny

Beauty & Body ImageMelanie DaleJune 3, 2024melanie dale, summer2024part1 Comments

Dizzy

PerspectiveMelanie DaleMarch 7, 2024melanie dale, aging, spring2024part1 Comments

Accidental Naughty Elf

StorytellingMelanie DaleNovember 30, 2023Christmas, adult children, humor, winter2023part1a, melanie dale Comments

Old Mom, New Mom

Perspective, School AgeMelanie DaleSeptember 7, 2023melanie dale, aging, high school, fall2023part1 Comments

Modifications

PerspectiveMelanie DaleMay 31, 2023melanie dale, summer23part1a, showing up Comments

The Last Days of the Swim Taxi

School AgeMelanie DaleFebruary 28, 2023spring2023part3, children growing up, carpool, melanie dale Comments

Final Mom

The Hard Stuff, PerspectiveMelanie DaleOctober 31, 2022melanie dale, halloween, monsters Comments

Can't Take Us Anywhere

PerspectiveMelanie DaleJuly 19, 2022humor, teenagers, vulnerability, melanie dale Comments

Burning Dead Dreams

The Hard Stuff, Best of C+C, InfertilityMelanie DaleJune 7, 2022burning dreams, new dreams, cancer, melanie dale, sabbatical page Comments

A Stirring Story

Marriage, The Hard Stuff, Best of C+C, January BestMelanie DaleFebruary 9, 2022cancer, recipe, risotto, in sickness, in health, marriage, love after babies, melanie dale Comments

Giving Micro-Thanks

PerspectiveMelanie DaleNovember 24, 2021melanie dale, thanksgiving, gratitude, cancer Comments

What Happens When I Don't Get My Coffee

PerspectiveMelanie DaleOctober 18, 2021humor, coffee, melanie dale Comment

The Less You Know

StorytellingMelanie DaleJune 24, 2021melanie dale, the less you know, teenagers Comments

Goodbye Grade School

PerspectiveMelanie DaleMay 24, 2021melanie dale, growing up, older kids, end of elementary school Comment

Out Damn Spot

Mental Health, PerspectiveMelanie DaleApril 7, 2021melanie dale, OCD, covid-19 Comments

All By Myself

Friendship, PerspectiveMelanie DaleMarch 3, 2021melanie dale, parenting older kids, mom friends Comments