Professional writer, designer, and blogger. When she’s not publishing eBooks, designing embroidery patterns, or blogging — Mel’s out in the sunshine finding new stories.
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we hold in our own hands EARTH and OCEAN do we hold them as carefully as our wallets? This stunning painting by Ilonggo artist Marrz Capanang was created during Artivism 2.0 (Iloilo City, Philippines) earlier this month. Artivism is a…
there’s art on the streets over every broken wall we see ourselves in paint there’s art on the streets in every broken leaf (or the dirty sea) we see ourselves we paint there’s art on the streets in every broken…
oh let me introduce you to our new place -- we call it home and like a little prince (with mother Queen) we each of us have a throne it has a lovely concrete driveway so we're out of all…
Whoever Victoria is ... she's a daughter, a human, a woman, a friend, a neighbour, a person, a citizen, beautiful, loved, a creative being of infinite potentential, AND she definitely is NOT ... #saysomethingnice #sendlovetovictoria #endbullying
This year for World Literacy Day, Jerry and I went back and visited Estancia. We spent Friday night making reading packs for 18 of our friends and put them in shiny bags. It was exciting, though Jerry was feeling a…
Jerry has officially been on his TB meds now for two weeks so his incubation period is over. We've spent the last fortnight adjusting and falling into a ritual of measuring out pill quantities, cutting and swallowing. Followed by milk…
For the uninitiated, after a flood your deep well needs to be cleaned. We don't drink the water from our well, we buy that. But the deep well feeds our [cold] shower, toilet tap (for filling buckets of water to…
Since moving to Iloilo City, every day Jerry likes to buy a little mango drink for about 25c. He trots down the road with his wallet and 10 pesos and returns with a disposable plastic cup filled with condensed milk,…
There is a hard reality to living in a developing country during Typhoon Season. Spare a thought for the families living in bamboo houses, tarpaulin huts and fishing boats who'll lose their Christmas livelihood tonight.
