Hi y'all. Go follow me on Twitter (@melissa) where I post a lot more often. Penelope emailed me earlier: "you have @melissa on twitter? that's really cool." One minute later, she emails again: "you are good at twitter. i have never read your feed ...Read More
In New York City, my starting salary was so low, that after rent, bills, and taxes (federal, state, city), I only had about $500 a month to live on. That's not much, when you consider a box of no-name knock-off ...Read More
First and foremostly, I'm a geek. No, seriously. You can tell because I'm the only one reading from my iPhone, and not a piece of paper or memory. Secondly, I'm a writer, not a poet. So, forgive me, if I suck. ...Read More
Starting from kindergarten, I addressed all of my teachers by their first name. Of course, this was in Beverly Hills in the early 1990s, at an extraordinarily elite (and that's putting it mildly) elementary school. The kind where you get ...Read More
Let's consider the brief history of the message: 1) We have mail, you know, "snail mail," which has to physically go to a location and takes "time." 2) Then we have email, which goes electronically to a location without requiring "time," only ...Read More
After spending the day being lost in Tokyo and loving it, I returned to my hotel after finally finding MUJI. After resting for awhile, I left for another adventure, this time to Yokohama. I set out with low expectations, but ...Read More
In the past, I've spent a lot of time wandering around in foreign countries. Sometimes I know where I'm going, sometimes I don't. When I arrived in Shibuya, Tokyo and didn't know where I was going, I did what I ...Read More
This first appeared on 2.26.09 as the first ever guest post on Blommit called "People Not on Facebook Need not Apply." First dates are completely, totally, and inexcusably obsolete. There is just no good reason for them to exist any longer. Join ...Read More
I find that most people approach writing the wrong way. They sit down at some scheduled time, and say to themselves, "Okay, time to write an entry for my blog." It doesn't work that way though. As much as that ...Read More
Everybody has different measures of success, but I'm only going to talk about the material ones today. For some it's a house or a nice big salary, for others it's fame, and for others still it's a Ferrari or a ...Read More