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Let it go, let it roll right off your shoulder; don’t you know the hardest part is over…

Published on January 12, 2010 By MartaLis

I have been remiss! After all, the name of this blog is “Marta’s Melodies,” and I haven’t even mentioned a song in over a month! So your challenge this time is to guess the title, artist, and album of the song I referenced in this blog title. (No Googling!! Play fair! ) The first person [...]

Hard Things

Published on January 11, 2010 By Administrator

The month before our girl/boy twins would turn one year old, our daughter became very ill. She, who naturally was very active (my sister even said she was my dancer while Lis was yet in the womb), became listless & would lie down for hours at a time. By the end of the week, my [...]

Perfection

Published on January 7, 2010 By MartaLis

This is the part where you see my name attached to a blog and go…”Who are you again?”  But instead of making excuses, I’m just going to blog about it I am a self-described “uber-perfectionist,” and that attribute of my personality sometimes gets in my way a little bit.  As an example, for some reason, I [...]

Suggestions For Helping Children Learn

Published on January 5, 2010 By Administrator

April Rice is our guest blogger this week.  She has lived in the South but went to college in freezing Idaho.  Her kind spirit and bright smile bless all with whom she comes in contact, especially her husband and her family.  Professionally, she has taught for several years in Florida and Mississippi.  Here she shares [...]

Love…True Love

Published on November 23, 2009 By Administrator

On my mind much lately is the principle and practice of love.  Some questions that have been in my thoughts are those such as: Do we have to earn love, or can we expect it to be given freely to us? What comes by “protecting” ourselves through not expressing the love we feel toward others [...]

In between Point A and Point B…

Published on October 12, 2009 By Administrator

Lately, I have been intrigued by this whole concept called “process.”  Right now, I’m in the middle of the application process (our word of the day) for medical school.  I’m deciding where I want to go, what I want to say, and basically who I want to be for the next decade or so of [...]