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The Only Way To Grow

Posted on May 21, 2024May 21, 2024 by Melissa Perley

On the corner of the cherry bar in our kitchen is a pile of notebooks. We have a few years of date books, just in case we need to look back for some reason, a six slot wire holder that is stuffed with business cards, pamphlets of places we have been and places we would…

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Posted on May 8, 2024May 9, 2024 by Melissa Perley

When a spring season arrives it somehow feels like everything is new, as if winter has frozen my brain and made me forget spring. The leaves, curled tight like small green fists yesterday, have unfurled today, stretching their fingers toward the warmer sunshine. Looking out the kitchen window there is new texture across the mountains,…

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Melissa Perley is an award-winning author, 
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