Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
Kid’s water park
excited shrieks
wet selfies.
Splashed with red flowers.
‘Tita Mel, you have little red flowers on you’ cried 11 year old Jerry as we were leaving a kid’s waterpark yesterday. Underneath the steps of a shrieking watercoaster, a garden of red blossoms — their tiny buds carried to the furthest park perimeter, including my shoulders.
wonderful
we had a lovely sunday. nice to hear from you, i hope things are great for you.