Melissa SingerOn This DayOn this day, They will hold their hands out to me and I will tentatively tap Their fingertips in uncomfortable invitation because this day…Nov 16, 2021Nov 16, 2021
Melissa SingerSEVEN***This is an essay I wrote to get into a grad program I didn’t have the grades to get into. SPOILER ALERT: I didn’t get in. Don’t cry for…Apr 21, 2021Apr 21, 2021
Melissa SingerEssential, Part 1My daughter works at a home goods store and, after a period of COVID-19 layoff, was called back to fulfill essential curbside orders. None…May 21, 2020May 21, 2020
Melissa SingerTo Tyler Joseph, With GratitudeThis morning as I was driving my babies, three and one, to our weekly library Rhythm and Rhyme group, I thought about what a fantastic joke…Nov 3, 2016Nov 3, 2016
Melissa SingerI Love YouHe told me while face-to-face, the intimacy of it strangling me. We were so young and we must have looked too small to passerby. He looked…Aug 15, 2011Aug 15, 2011
Melissa SingerWe’re standing still, JENNY!I may have signed something somewhere along the way promising to never disclose this information, but I doubt that anyone who may stumble…Oct 11, 2010Oct 11, 2010
Melissa SingerMinimal Units of MeaningA few years ago I had a rather big crush on a gentleman who was in my grammar class on Wednesday nights. It being that I had a boyfriend at…Aug 13, 2010Aug 13, 2010
Melissa SingerThe First Rule of Bee Club.“During the Beehive meetings we talk and do meeting related things (talk about bees, ideas, plan our business).”-My daughterMar 30, 2009Mar 30, 2009