NEW BLOG- NEW NAME

At last the unveiling has arrived. That's right folks, I've officially changed my name and my web address.

My new name is: Melissa B. McAllister
My new blog address is: www.melissamcallister.com.

You can also find my updated email address on the new site.

I'd like to thank all the wonderful internet robots at Blogger for the 2 pleasant years I've spent here. It has been an adventure.

I hope you'll all stop by my new site and say hello. This year I'm committed to writing as well and often as I can.

Coming Soon!

Friends, readers, fellow bloggers; lend me your ears!

While I admit that I have severely neglected my blog in the last six months and rightly deserve a virtual flogging for having done so, this post brings good news of creative scribblings to come. This is a pre-announcement to a major announcement.

Soon and very soon, my writing hiatus will come to an end.  I have truly missed the craft of forming words, and I am excited to begin again with freshness.  I'd be honored if those readers who are still holding out for me to return will follow me to my new web-destination.  In just a few short weeks I'll be launching a brand new site complete with blog, articles, writing projects, recommendations and awesomeness.   As Nelly likes to say, this blog will soon have a brand new dress.  However, the new domain name will remain unveiled until the appropriate time.   On a similar note, I'm getting married in FOUR weeks, at which time I [personally] will also have a new dress and a new name. :)

Stay tuned, folks.  There is much to come.

October Approaches...

October approaches. Crispness

creeping into air,

leaves rustling with color

pressing rusty hand prints into

sidewalks.

Time for socks and sweaters,

pipes and patched scarves.

Time to bring together

warming lover's hands

on long walks under fading

evening skies.

October smells

of freshly sharpened pencils,

sticks of cinnamon,

distant campfires and

pine needles fallen.

Children grow tall

in October,

their minds and legs

stretching out

before my eyes.

I blink and they are changed.

Anticipation spills over.

Unexpected beauty of a new morning

thrills me with pleasant

surprise.

I should never want to know

a world without

Octobers.

(Photo by Sarae)