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DID YOU MISS MY BLOG? Here’s the new version. BUT it’s the grownup version because my daughter Julia is college-aged now (I AM MELISSA. I am NOT Julia. My original blog was about children’s books and named after her).

So now I get to talk about whatever I want, which is mostly what I’m reading and what tea over which I’m currently obsessing. Instagram has had my flow of words in a stranglehold for years and I accidentally let me old blog domain expire, SO HERE WE ARE. I’ll be writing about the trifecta of awesome - CHARMING, DELIGHTFUL, & COZY things.

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