Melissa Jo Hill

Fast time

Dear Reader:

On April 2, 2006, the State of Indiana adopted Daylight Saving Time — or fast time as they called it…

The wild mind and mine

While fleshing out my craft of writing shelves last year, I ordered a used copy of Natalie Goldberg’s Wild Mind: Living…

A jar of real human feelings

I’ve started and scrapped this letter so many times already. It’s hard to be profound when it seems the world is spiraling out of control, isn’t it? It seems an inappropriate time for self-reflection, but that’s my schtick. I’m supposed to be teasing out a thread of meaning to…

Cheerio My Deario

i once was an innocent kit
 wotthehell wotthehell
 with a ribbon my neck to fit
 and bells tied onto it
 o wotthehell wotthehell
 but a maltese cat came by
 with a come hither look in his eye
 and a song that soared to the sky
 and wotthehell wotthehell
 and i followed adown the street
 the pad…