February 2012
1 post
True Confessions
Hi. My name is Melissa and I have a slight lisp. It’s a good thing I’m making this confession online because saying “slight lisp” out loud is hard. But not NEARLY as hard as saying “synthesize”. Saying “synthesizing a thesaurus” is impossible.
When I found this helpful pronunciation guide, I realized, whoa. There’s someone out there who sounds...
January 2012
3 posts
Walking the Walk
Have I mentioned that I hate to exercise? I have? OK here is an example of me actually exercising: Clyde makes me do a three mile walk (which includes forty six steep hills) seven days a week. And when I say seven days a week, I mean three. There are circumstances that prevent me from walking seven days a week, which I think are worth sharing since some of you may find yourself in a similar...
Trouble with Foreign Tongues
I couldn’t just restart my old blog. I had to switch to a completely different blogging platform. And then I couldn’t be satisfied with one of their pre-designed templates, I had to customize it. And customization means speaking the HTML. So there I was, in the land of Web Development, attempting to speak the HTML, with only the slightest idea of what I was doing. It was like being in...
