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- "A Castle on the Ocean" made of paper
- "Apparently what I'm hoping is that you will fix all my problems by the end of this conversation"
- "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy" - Louis C.K.
- "Get in! Close the door!"
- "I want Mimi do it!"
- "It's like if the cool guys you went to college with got a TV show for kids..."
- "Just make it up!" Some thoughts on creativity
- "Just tell me what you want, hon..."
- "You are so good at blogging about the most interestingly random topics!"
- "You be da fake Mimi!"
- 1, 2, 3... Just like that you're in my drawing!
- 10 Reasons To Come to September Soirée at the Art House on the 20th
- 16 hours in Greensboro
- 8 Irresistible Principles of Fun: More than a clever Web 2.0 hook
- A Bit of Indulgence this weekend? Friday AND Saturday!
- A Bit of Indulgence: Take a peek!
- A Blue-Sky-Friday Gratitude Blog
- A Tuesday List of Happy Things
- A day of packing, errands before another little trip
- A few hours make all the difference
- A fly on my wall?
- A fragmented list for the end of summer
- A little dilemma concerning bubbles and curly straws
- A little freewrite about watching rain in the middle of the afternoon
- A love story and life lesson all rolled up in one
- A lovely quote by Thomas Edison
- A new blog at melodywatson.com
- Abandoned trestles with nesting geese and spider webs and other obsessions
- About Those Creative Women
- Another edition of "How did they find my website?"
- Aren't mobile phones great? (Pre photo shoot smiles)
- As ConvergeSouth 08 approaches: some BloggerCon jokes
- At which time the Airborne came out my nose
- Audaciously working toward a goal of 100 simultaneous push-ups - Part I
- Awesome find when trying to "find" a client's lost Squarespace login
- Back on a horse again...finally
- Batutah.com - My 1st Squarespace Mommy Blog
- Because my other About Me page had started to bore me
- Better tweak the priority pendulum
- Blogger validation in this morning's email
- Blogging from "home" in South Carolina
- Blogging the process for accountability: the only reason that mattered (About Those Push-Ups, Part 2)
- Bohemian Rhapsody, old school computer version
- Breaking up with a whole pile of hobbies
- Buckets of blackberries in my future?
- Bummed AND relieved at the cancelled BlogHer 08 conference
- Category Archive - Writing
- Category Archive: "Reading"
- Category Archive: Coffee
- Category Archive: Health
- Category Archives - "Holidays"
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- Category Archives: Family
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- Category Archives: Packing & Moving
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- Category archives: Challenges
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- Category archives: To sleep or not
- Cause I have magical powers like that
- Cavender's Greek Seasoning on my chicken
- Champion of culinary mediocrity
- Changing the light
- Cheesecakes by Alex: The place to be on Election Day!
- Chema Madoz photography: how can you choose a favorite?
- Choosing steamed brussel sprouts over a juicy cheeseburger
- Christmas Eve guilt not allowed
- Clearly auditioning for a very important role
- Colfax Persimmon festival
- Collaboration: dotmatrix project-Style
- Computer Concepts & Solutions - The answer to my "who do I call?" computer questions.
- ConvergeSouth 2008 & BlogHer Greensboro - Two for one, babies...
- Craving less nomad (for a while, anyway)
- Customer service VRUs: sometimes they get it so right
- Dark chocolate edamame at Trader Joe's
- Dear Friend Whose House (And Kitties) I Took Care Of While You Traveled
- Decisions as progress - without taking actual steps
- Discoveries while sick (again)
- Distracted much?
- Do you agree with Digg users on the best advertising slogan?
- Effervescent, curmudgeon, bodacious... Aah, words
- Email from a Blogger blogger who needs Squarespace
- Enough Megapixels Already
- Even when they get it wrong, generous service attitude goes so far
- Exactly what you want to say to people some days
- Expression for the masses?
- Fabulous discovery tool for combatting writer's block
- Feeling like everybody in the world should have parents like mine
- Filling every minute of these last few days in the Carolinas
- Finally taking the Get Seriously Organized leap, & nobody will catch me?
- Finally, Those Creative Women... tomorrow!
- First day of 2009 howdy
- Flying string of wooden beads & other High Entertainment activities
- Found article on creativity and conscious living
- Four reasons it's taken me 6 days to mention those blackberries again
- From the archives: a little story about letting myself get sucked into doing something I didn't want to do
- Fulfilling some of the terms of our arrangement
- Fun things about house sitting & how they are affecting my week
- Getting the story out - more thoughts on what it's like to finally start writing a novel
- Gift of music
- Girl bonding: all it takes is a single scent
- Girls' weekend at North Litchfield Beach
- Go see these dmp photos at Thai Pan, taken at live local performances
- Good thing it rained in Atlanta - otherwise apparently I wouldn't have ANY web traffic!
- Gotta' find my copy of Amélie
- Great tongue-in-cheek song about being on twitter
- Green tea for this coffee girl?
- Greensboro: Not really a walking town, is it?
- Grilled cheese never called my name any louder...
- Growth on branch - fascinated & disgusted
- Halfway there - 15 days remaining to win my new iPhone from Squarespace, er, #squarespace...
- Hangin' with Fritz & Mimi...for about 4 months
- Happy Birthday Tetris!!!!!
- Happy New Year: You know you're comfy with you when you'll blog this...
- Happy things from this week...so far
- Hard pressed to imagine a better lunchtime view
- Have learned he wants to see me today...
- Hopping around the back yard this morning
- Hot Flashes, Southern talk & the In-House Squarespace Evangelist
- How 'bout one more drawing before November 8?
- How I wrap up a day like this one
- How a blogger convention is different from others I've attended...
- How many degrees of separation?
- How to unmuddle the multitasking brain?
- Huge blueberry bush: the real reason I quit worrying about the blackberries
- I didn't mean to lie when I told him my day's schedule...
- I fall a little in love with ALL my clients...
- I have observed that:
- I now make house calls for sick websites needing Squarespace
- If I were one of those people who blogged about her private life...
- If all my shows were like "Those Creative Women" it would be a lot harder to take this break
- If you say "it's not a poem" perhaps you can still say what you need to say without being judged as a poet
- If you take a 3 minute break from redesigning your website, you might just catch a glimpse of a seriously splendid sunset.
- Improving preparedness or romanticizing inconvenience?
- In follow-up to yesterday's assertion - smaller than a dime
- In praise of the anonymous blogger
- In praise of the compellingly-written About Page, plus some lists
- In praise of the nearly perfect omelette. Never mind what it looks like.
- In response to my rambly email concerning an idea I thought she should look into
- In which my hair becomes a nice shade of magenta
- In which the search for a contact lens becomes a honkin deal
- In which we ponder whether "bad publicity" might also be good publicity...
- Inspiring travel quotes
- It is SOOOO not a craft fair; "Those Creative Women" event almost here!
- It took a view like this to get me on Flickr
- It's because of a little trip to Atlanta
- It's been a while since we had a recap & I know you love my lists
- It's how I look for balance
- It's just really not all that interesting, see...
- It's not exactly guilt, but something like that...
- Jorge Cruise site hosted by Squarespace: most excellent discovery
- Just another pretty sunset
- Just fell in love with a Jeanette LeBlanc photo
- Just under a week in WV...
- Just when I was starting to worry about the wuss factor
- KC and The Sunshine Band's song I can't get out of my head
- Kendra's quesadilla and some business talk
- Large pupils, new websites & hugs from tiny arms
- Last night's thoughts on courtesy while in an imperfect mood
- Little lost week with lots of smiles, in spite of itself
- Little reading and music for your evening...
- Llama Lu Lu uses Squarespace for her blog. She's 8 & already has fabulous taste. (Not to mention her co-blogger, Lisa...her mom.)
- Long exhale after returning to my hideaway & finishing up seriously productive workday
- Long way down; shared my nostalgia
- Lookin' to get away? Here's your island...and your man!
- Looking for that blog post from yesterday or before?
- Love song to a cup of "Throat Coat" tea
- Loving Karen Rutherford's newly redesigned website
- Malcolm Gladwell, grasshoppers, teal & phantom doorbells
- Marimba intro, then check out Nathan Daughtrey's holiday CD
- Maybe you have to teach the southern kids to like snow?
- Meet Mia: my hiking buddy
- Mind-Over-Matter Friday
- Monday: a perfect day for a 3 hour drive
- More than just another website redesign
- Most fun Squarespace-based website collaboration so far?
- Moving boxes create the delusion of progress
- Musicovery: as if I'd asked for it but never knew!
- My Dad's gonna' like this one
- My Squarespace playground is expanding
- My first ninety minutes of novel writing thank you, Dena Harris
- My nephew, the clean police...
- My own kind of "time out" - this person is paying attention
- Nags Head Sea Oats
- Narcissistic blog stats entertainment to readjust a design lull
- Not in West Virginia to "find myself"
- Observations on being 2 1/2
- Obsessing over a chain?
- Official reminder that I am a wuss. Hats off to all the parents I know.
- Older entries related to Gratitude
- On Event Turnout Expectation: Helps provide the calm and balance I'm always craving...
- On letting go of all that worry
- On one of the more common "self awareness" questions
- On the loss of David Foster Wallace
- One excellent day in March
- One more thing to like about Australia: National Public Toilet Map
- One of these could be yours in 24 hours!
- One red paperclip for a house. Then what for a car?
- One stop shop
- Only a tiny corner of indulgence
- Or maybe I was just getting sick... (Live music tonight, though, with or without me!)
- Paolo Pizzimenti's camera finds light and texture and emotion...
- Perfect for a Wednesday
- Photo of the day
- Photoshop tutorial to kickstart my creativity this morning
- Pic of the day - Saw these guys in Seattle's Pike Place Market
- Podcast, robots, Twitter, Etsy, I Phones, Batutah, SIM cards: 20 Year Ago Me just got lost...
- Precariously Controlled Chaos - Pre Beach Trip
- Quirky? Sure! Unspectacular? PLEASE...
- Rediscovered perfect live version of Sting's Never Coming Home
- Remember my daddy if you say prayers
- Remember those "Bill Gates Will _______ if you pass this on" emails? Well this one's about MS, and it's true!
- Remembered smells of dirt and rain
- Revisiting "How to be Creative" by Hugh MacLeod
- Riveting Post-Christmas Ramblings
- Robert Scoble's interview with Facebook's Mark Slee made me take a fresh look at its redesign
- Rusty padlock & peeling paint
- Sadie's Anger Relief Tea
- Safe in WV: No More Crying Wolf
- Saturday update, mostly about my Daddy
- Second attempt at using the Sqarespace iPhone app
- She spent 30 minutes choosing a flat iron & it was time well-spent 'cause now I have a new blog post
- She's on a quest for the perfect pair of pants
- She's right about the boundary issues
- Should be in the "before you start a blog" checklist
- Simple Pleasures Friday
- Site launches, road trips, back spasms & iPhones
- Snow, colds and an ever-evolving set of plans
- So how much rain HAVE they had in Atlanta these past few days?
- So the laptop was only pretending to be sick?
- Some people are having Oscars parties tonight
- Some people just pull out a cookbook. Seriously! I've met them.
- Someone called it the most funny stand up comedy sketch ever
- Something I could realistically find myself saying one day soon
- Spider web & blackberry bush photography as metaphor for life?
- Start 'em young, build that confidence...
- Stole 100 questions; you're welcome...
- Stolen Interet Fails To Live Up To Expectations, Day One:
- Stolen Interet Fails To Live Up To Expectations, Day Three:
- Stolen Interet Fails To Live Up To Expectations, Day Two:
- Success: Sleeping through the night surprise
- Sunday solitude
- Surprise preface to the next edition of "A Very Watson Christmas"
- TMI Tuesday: numbing cream & social angst
- Ten Reasons: A list for freelancers. (Leave the house already!)
- Ten Things You Might Try For Combatting A Persistent Bad Mood
- Tends to hide when overstimulated
- That first Monday of a new year is a honkin big deal in the UK, eh?
- That magic chair, a home gym & all kinds of clarity
- The Longest Way 1.0 - Out of my travel league. But can you imagine?
- The Neighborhood Story Project
- The Top 10 List Wins Every Time: Amusing myself on other people's blogs
- The best birthday ever?
- The best job EVAH: thank you Squarespace
- The change I've most fought for years...
- The guy I made pancakes for this morning
- The most challenging thing that happened yesterday
- The only reason for this post is to make sure you know I'm here and just fine!
- The story of my first hike to see some WV caves, and how I came to see my own private light show
- The value in connecting with like-minded, freelancing, blogging-types
- Things I wish I hadn't left in the WV house
- Things my mom taught me
- This afternoon's surprise visitor
- This is what happens when you let yourself sleep in on a Monday
- This joke sort of reminds me of this week
- Thoreau on dreams...
- Time out for a Squarespace User commercial break
- Tiny little detox and poor neglected blog
- To be ready for September Soirée on Saturday...
- To this inadvertent digital nomad, another shifting approach looms
- Too much rain in Atlanta - #4 on my Monday Gratitude List
- Toxel is unusual and creative
- Tra La La!!! A cookie with your name! (You know you want one too...)
- Untitled mandala
- Upon finding out that the Squarespace iPhone app is finally ready
- Very important political discourse around here
- Videos to explain all manner of web-based goodness - & more...
- Waffling between Google Chrome & Firefox
- Website help, cooking help...it's all good!
- Wee slice of life - early August edition
- Weird little clues you're starting to get better
- Well that was a colossal waste of time...
- What do you do with all YOUR old keys?
- What does Mollie Katzen have to do with grits, anyway?
- What if I could get my hands on that West Virginia house for a while?
- What if every week were as cool as this one?
- What my client said to me today about Squarespace
- What summer used to feel like
- What topped the charts the day YOU were born?
- What we always do when Melody's blogging mojo takes a hit
- What you get from standing in the middle of the road at sundown
- When it becomes vital that you leave your little cave
- When you'll stand under a tree in the pouring rain, all in the name of good phone reception
- Where are these "normal" people of whom you speak?
- Where the Locals Eat - cool found site
- Wherein I make up something for the blog
- Wherein I quickly peek in from my blogging hiatus
- Wherein the highlight of my workday is that a client loves Squarespace as much as I do
- Which applies to you? If you DO have a choice, will you consider upgrading from IE6? Pretty Please???
- Who starts a road trip at 5pm, anyway?
- Who took the photo of this bear with his head in the bus?
- Why are you not in West Virginia yet, woman?
- Why, on a Not So Swell Kind Of Day, the tears in my eyes are from hard laughter
- Winding down the last Friday night of my 39th year
- Wonder if he'll be able to fix my funk?
- Wonder what they're doing right now?
- Wonky sleep cycles, music from back when & productivity levels
- Wooded hiatus in only 22 miles
- Words to aspiring writers, by Sandra Scofield
- Wouldn't want things to be TOO peaceful around here!
- Yea, well that was a lie
- Yes - twice in one week...
- Yesterday's view & today's work groove
- You call it a bed, I call it an office...
- You'll prolly want to get your edamame somewhere else
- YouTube Comment Audio Preview = Very Good Move







