Creativity - Art, Culture, and Lifestyle

I have several things I want to share with everyone.  First, The Melindaville Blog was honored by being selected as the October Blog of the Month on Jennifer's 'Writing to Survive' blog.  This means a great deal to me because the Jennifer’s blog is one of my very favorite in the blogosphere.  Second, I am excited to announce that I have been asked to be a guest writer on the fabulous site and blog, 'Go! Smell the Flowers.'   Being asked to guest post on such a well established and beautiful...Read Full Story

Today is Pentecost Sunday and you have got to pay attention to individuals who are in ‘Sync’ with the Holy Spirit  today.  These are the clues that I noticed that qualified me. Yesterday I ‘just happened’ to receive my Chinese Red platform shoes that I had won on eBay.  I only have one red dress in my closet.  I almost didn’t wear it because I thought pink would be more ‘spring’ and I feared I would be  ‘garishly out of season’ since the gold glitter spiral was more in keeping with a...Read Full Story

Large spaces-can you name the large spaces in our lives that require design, decoration, atmosphere and experience?  Hotel lobbies come to mind and having seen the inside of 7 of them in the last two weeks I was interested to see how each of these entities treated the lobby area with design and decoration.  These pictures are from the Sofitel in Cairo and the LeMeridian Hotels The welcoming areas were expansive with tall ceilings, wide spaces and huge windows that overlooked the Nile river...Read Full Story

I attended my son's football game on Saturday.  It was the first one that I've been able to see all  year.  The first ones were while I was gone to Egypt.   They didn't win although they gave it a valiant effort.What was even more interesting was watching the coaches and the fathers that help with the team.  It was nothing short of a "banty rooster" contest between the men to see who could yell louder and meaner at the boys ( at one point one of the sons shouted at his Dad " I'm doing the...Read Full Story

Wow--having been away in Egypt and then in New Mexico, I feel like I've only been home for Sunday's to lead worship.  It's been a weird feeling.  The teams have done excellent with the short rehearsal times on Sunday mornings to accomodate their missing leader.  Hopefully we'll be back to a regular scheduled worship rehearsal time this week.  We're adjusting our rehearsals for the time being to accomodate the start up of Community groups--so this week we're rehearse on Thursday.Set List for...Read Full Story