Truth, Grace, And Common Sense
There was a time when common sense didn't need defending.You didn't need a study to tell you boys and girls were different. You didn't need a government agency to explain...Read More
Tag: Life
Where Intimidation Fails and Preparation Wins
How Saved Letters, Tough Bosses, And Fierce Negotiations Forged An Unlikely Business Trailblazer The heart of this conversation is startlingly simple and deeply human: a daughter wrote two letters a...Read More
What If Surrender Is The Shortest Road To Peace?
The Elizabeth Harris Story GRIEF DOES NOT ASK PERMISSIONIt arrives, rearranges the furniture of the heart, and dares you to find your footing in a dark room. Our conversation with...Read More
Feminism: Everything You Thought Was Empowering… Was Actually a Lie
Unmasking the movement that promised freedom but delivered confusion, division, and a departure from biblical truth A Red Lipstick, a Power Suit, and a Lie Picture this: It’s the 90s....Read More
Own Your Fifty
Own Your Fifty ModernMelly The Dark Side of Life About 11 years (or so) ago I was in a dark, ugly, personal space in life, in my mind, and especially...Read More
Year In Review. Kind Of-ish.
Year In Review. Kind Of-ish by ModernMelly Well, hello! It's been a while, hasn't it?! Hope you're all doing well & have made it through 2016 as unscathed as one...Read More
12 People You Know (And Want to Slap Sometimes) On Facebook
12 People You Know (And Want To Slap Sometimes) On Facebook by ModernMelly We all know em, we all ARE them ( at one time or another, at least)...Read More
Soul Mate or Soul Sucker?
Soul Mate, Or Soul Sucker? By ModernMelly I read a Facebook post late last night, just before bed, from a beautiful young woman; a gut wrenching breakup post that...Read More
Home is The Haven: Police Family Life
Making home the haven. Now that sounds nice, doesn't? But is it easy? Hell no, at least not at first. But the fact is, if you've married a police officer,...Read More
Online Job Application: Police Wife
So I have to preface this post with an explanation: Last week my husband and I were having a difference of opinion- okay, fine, a bit of an argument really-...Read More
Thanks Mister
This morning when I woke up, I did the same first thing that I always do: I check my phone. More specifically, I check (in this order) my texts, my...Read More
Dear 44th Birthday
Dear 44th, Aww, hey, what's up? Listen, I just wanted to welcome you, and you know, try and make you feel a little less the 'outsider' here. I get how...Read More
12 Happy Pages For Social Media Addicts
12 Happy Pages For Social Media Addicts By Modern Melly Hello fellow social media addicts! Disclaimer: This is not a support group, nor will I try to persuade you...Read More
Dear Everyone Writing A ‘Dear____’ Blog
Dear everyone and their mother that writes a blog, including me: STOP FUCKING WRITING 'DEAR (insert person type here)'. Enough already, we get it. Seriously. Dear children's costume company, stop...Read More
Thank You, From A Police Wife
Anyone that reads my stories knows I love social media, Facebook particularly, and that I start my day by reading my Facebook wall like it's the morning paper. In my...Read More
We Have Forgotten
I admit it. I hash-tagged "Never Forget" this morning, posted it on social media along with one of the many, many, heart breaking photos from September 11, 2011. Then I...Read More
A Moderate American Taps the Mic, Revisited
Revisiting A Moderate America Takes the Mic By Modern Melly I wrote this back in August, a spur of the moment, knee jerk reaction to current events. This morning, I...Read More
Dear Modern Moms (Message from a Dinosaur Mom)
With so many topics to choose from- Donald Trump running for President (love it. Gasp, I said it), the senseless and cowardly slaughter of Cecil the Lion (heartsick over it),...Read More
Too Many Heroes
Ahem. *Stands on soapbox, taps microphone. I couldn't help but notice, and of course partake in the numerous dialogues and debates over what constitutes a Hero. Since I haven't posted...Read More
Welcome Winds Of Change
"Welcome winds of change..." or so I keep telling myself. Repeatedly. Daily. Almost hourly. From where did this obsessiveness with this phrase come? Ah, well it started last week, as I...Read More
Happy Father’s Day
Happy Father's Day by ModernMelly Brief historical fact for those who think Father's Day is just another Hallmark created fake holiday: The first (documented) celebration of Father's Day occurred in...Read More
Boxes, Prayers & Swears (AKA Sanity Savers)
Yes. That's right: Boxes, Prayers & Swears. Where's she going with this, right? Well, it's kinda my thing, among other things, of course, for getting through life's 'stuff'. I love...Read More
You Think You Know Me (Because Once, You Knew Me)
You Think You Know Me (Because Once, You Knew Me) by ModernMelly A funny thing happened when I began dating my husband: I changed. At least, that's how some people...Read More
7 Ways To Get Super Powers
Really? Did you really just click to see "7 Ways To Get Super Powers"?! Yeah, I would've, too. We can't help ourselves, can we? It's these damn "List Blogs". They...Read More
If I Had A Soundtrack To My Life
As you, of course know (because you follow my blog so devoutly. Wink, wink.) I am a police loving, lipstick wearing, Steve Perry obsessed, I Love You, Man drinker, who...Read More
Police Wife
I know, it seems you've been hearing quite a lot from us lately. I also know that we probably seem extreme to you, the general public, or the “quiet” wives....Read More
Well, I’ll Be Damned
Well, I''l be damned. That's what I was thinking, a few days ago, as I bobbed along in an aluminum kayak, in the middle of a crystal clear Florida spring,...Read More
I’m Not Talking To You, I’m Talking To Me
We all do it. Don't deny it... we all talk to ourselves. Sometimes, we're the only one who listens, am I right?! (hardy-har-har, I know). It's totally normal, healthy even,...Read More
As A Mom
[caption width="200" id="attachment_306" align="alignright"] Me and My Girls[/caption] I woke up this morning excited that my daughter and her boyfriend were coming over for breakfast. Watching my daughter as an...Read More
It’s Just My Face
*As I recall it, it was on a warm summer day in 1977, when I was first given a inkling that something was different, perhaps even wrong with me. I was but...Read More
If I Could Just Get Out Of My Own Way
Seriously. If I could just get out of my own way, I'd do just peachy. I'm meaning this in a most literal sense, but I briefly acknowledge that I also...Read More
When Is A Dream Just A Dream
I've always been a super, and I mean super, vivid dreamer. In fact, I have dreams from childhood that I can still recall with sharp detail. I also have had...Read More
Life Lessons I’ve Learned By Being A Police Wife
My husband and I met over a dozen years ago, through a dating website. We both, come to find out, just wanted to try something out of our comfort zones,...Read More
Drinking and Blogging
Rule Number One: Don't Drink and Blog. I mean, that probably is a good rule, considering that your ability to filter your thoughts is as impaired as... well, as you...Read More
10 Songs I Hate, But Know Every Word To
This morning I woke up, with no discernable reason, with the song Rainy Days and Mondays playing in in my head.Now, A) It's not Monday, it's Tuesday. B) It's not raining,...Read More
Mean Kinda Funny
Some people seem to be born with that gene that makes them just simply know how to act right, behave, be cool. They tell appropriate jokes, they laugh normal... my humor? Well, let's say that it takes...Read More
Dear 20-Something: An Open Apology
*Disclaimer: when I started this blog post, I was in a bitchy, pissed off, and disgusted mood. I'd been watching too much "news" with their primary focus on too many...Read More
15 Song Lyrics That Stole My Heart
15 Song Lyrics That Stole My Heart By ModernMelly Words. Wickedly, wonderfully powerful words. I love the way they wrap around, and cut through, and dance all about. I love...Read More
The Art of Being Vague
Ah, the art of being vague. It's, you know, kind of simple but not. (See what I did there? I was being vague.) Now, you forthright, direct people may wonder;...Read More
Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever?!
Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever?! By ModernMelly Heyyy. Sigh. So. I took an unplanned, unwanted month (plus) long hiatus from, well... everything, thanks to the flu, and subsequently pneumonia....Read More
7 Rules For Unf*cking Your Divorce (When You Have Kids.)
7 Rules For UnF*cking Your Divorce (When You Have Kids) by ModernMelly Writing What I Know As an aspiring (paid) writer, I've often heard, and taken to heart, the sage...Read More
Scattered
[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="353"] Seriously. This is how I feel.[/caption] Yup. Scattered. That'd be the word for describing my brain activity yesterday, and so far (at 9:15am) the word of today, as well....Read More
Simply Complicated
Last night I went to sleep thinking, 'Tomorrow, I'm going to work on a happy/light post for the blog!" That exclamation point was overkill, I wasn't that exuberant for God sakes....Read More
What Do you Mean, We’re Not Rich?
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="428"] Me, my signature pose, and my best "frienemy" Circa 1976[/caption] Growing up I had every reason to believe we were wealthy. After all, we...Read More
I’m Just Here For The Comments
I have an amazing group of friends. I simply love each one of them, and what they bring to the group. Now, having said that, I've got to tell you:...Read More
My 42 Year Dramedy
Yup, here's me. Grown ass woman in pigtails and a Marvel tee, getting ready to get messy. Here's also where and when I come up with these random little blogs....Read More
Poor Man’s Barbie
So, I have this dear friend (the kind you could never stop being friends with because they know way too much dirt on you) that likes to give me Barbie...Read More