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My story of 2009

By Mel | Published: Friday, 1 January 2010

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

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Deaths

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 25 June 2009

Today’s a day that’s had a lot of deaths in it. The first was the death of someone I hadn’t known of before, a woman named Jerri Nielsen, an ER doctor from Ohio who was working in Antarctica and had to treat herself when she discovered she had cancer. That was in 1999, & she [...]

Posted in Greens, Journal | Also tagged cancer, candle, David Carradine, death, Farrah Fawcett, Jerri Nielsen, John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Mom, poem, Village Lounge & Disco, Wellesley College | 1 Comment

Conflation (poem)

By Mel | Published: Sunday, 21 June 2009

Conflation I found home far from my birthplace, but at night my dreams remind me: I see them, Mom and Dad and their home at one with the landscape I now call my own and in daylight reality I know that my dream is more true than the maps which show the distance between my home, their home. Dreams evaporate the miles and place [...]

Posted in Greens, Poems | Also tagged Mom, poem | 3 Comments

Rial Eugene Green, 1919–2009

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Posted in Greens | Also tagged death | 4 Comments

Blinks

By Mel | Published: Saturday, 23 May 2009

On Facebook, my friend David has been thinking about blinks. He posted a brief little meditation about it a few days ago, & this morning a wonderful short poem called “Blinking” that I wish I could post here but I haven’t asked him so I won’t. But his poem led me to dig [...]

Posted in Greens, Nonfiction | Also tagged 1962, 1994, blinks, cats, Columbia Falls, creative nonfiction, Dave, David Cheezem, Eight Lives, Facebook, Green family, Gretchen Legler, Lem the cat, Mark, Melz history, memory, Mer, Mom, Montana, Rozz, UAA, Whylie | Leave a comment

Out of the cave

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 2 April 2009

I’ve been going through a rough patch lately. A patch . . . oh, about 8 months long. A cave, to be sure, well-supplied with bookshelves, TV, laptop, Kindle, iPod Touch, & plenty of escapist entertainment; but a cave nonetheless, where I lived with my cat & the boy’s dog & not much [...]

Posted in Depression, Greens | Tagged Dad | 2 Comments

Green family

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 6 December 2005

With Dad and Mom, Mer, Mark, and Dave. Columbia Falls, Montana. Abt. 1964. I’ve heard stories of families that, when a parent died, had all kinds of resentment or anger between family members over past wrongs and hurts. Well, we each have a share of hurts we’ve suffered from each other or given each other. [...]

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