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Old Manse

Posted on December 10, 2017June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson We arrived in Concord close to midnight on a cool December night. Cool and damp; nowhere near the New England cold we expected for the first week of the last month of the year. And so the fog rolled in, thick and opaque, […]

Programs to Help You Prepare for NaNoWrimo

Posted on October 24, 2017October 27, 2021 by Melissa Baron

October is nearly over, and that means a few different things: Fall has officially arrived. If you’re in the Midwest, like me, we have left behind the pleasantly warm, sunny days with cool breezes for chilly, wet, miserable ones where the sky just spits at you all day and the puddles are deceptively shallow until […]

Hannibal

Posted on May 23, 2017June 23, 2021 by Melissa Baron

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness… — Mark Twain It was hot enough to render my car’s air conditioning near useless as I drove west on the sun-baked and faded state road of Illinois Route 72. Hotter than a frog on a hot plate, my grandpa would say. And all the blasted cold air […]

Read, I Say—Read!

Posted on May 11, 2017October 27, 2021 by Melissa Baron

“I don’t have time to read,” I tell myself as I sit down with my cat and watch another episode or three of The Blacklist. “I wouldn’t know which book to choose from my TBR pile,” I say as I scroll through Tumblr or watch how licorice is made or shop on Etsy for things […]