I write because I breathe and it is as important to me as air.

I am a questioner and to be sure I have to work hard almost every day at trusting  other people, even dare I say trusting God?  This profound struggle is perhaps the gist of this blog, along with processing a painful childhood, my recovery as an adult from alcohol addiction and threaded through out are my experiences as a mother of four (three biological children and my step-daughter who calls me, her “other Mom”.)

I am married to a Music Man, who has made a very successful career in business and this makes it possible for me to be a writer, mother, and  photographer.  By the way, he has several wonderful CDs and I’d encourage you to listen.  Daily I strive to be more humble, ever faithful, and to write with full recognition that I do not deserve my charmed life.

This is a very quiet (even contemplative) blog with little discussion — pretty much none.  I feel sometimes as if my readers aren’t real sometimes because you are so quiet.  But I know you are there and I would rather have you read my confessions, and hope that they make you think, rather than cause a big stir or a flurry of comments.

I’m honored to offer my poetry, essays and photographs here and I do hope you will stay and read a while.

I have categories that I write within (drawn from my life experiences) but I have been told reading backwards chronologically is very meaningful.

Melody Harrison Hanson

All photography and words are my own unless noted.