PinnedMelanie HilliardThe poetry of joyLast week I had the opportunity to attend a reading by the wonderful human being, poet, and essayist, Ross Gay.1 min read·Dec 12, 2023----
Melanie HilliardTo reread or not to rereadIf you had asked me six months ago what some of my favorite books are, I would have enthusiastically included Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering…1 min read·Jan 11, 2024----
Melanie HilliardMy year in books: 2023 editionLet’s get this out of the way, 2023 wasn’t my best reading year.3 min read·Dec 24, 2023----
Melanie HilliardOne hundred years of lifeIt’s hard enough to know your parents as people, even harder to know your grandparents bar-hopping and laughing in decades unimaginable in…2 min read·Jun 11, 2023----
Melanie HilliardWhat fresh hell is this?I’ve trumpeted the sounds of my ancestors. More than once.2 min read·Feb 11, 2023----
Melanie HilliardMy year in books: 2022 editionThis is the year I stopped obsessively bean counting toward a reading goal. Number of books read. Calculations of reading velocity…2 min read·Jan 1, 2023----
Melanie HilliardMy year in books: 2021 editionLet’s just say I headed into 2021 with far more optimism than the amount with which I’m leaving it. I can’t be the only one to exclaim —…2 min read·Dec 22, 2021--1--1
Melanie HilliardWhat I learned from reading ‘The Art of Statistics’ (and why I’m not an armchair pandemic expert)Not to reveal my age, but I haven’t been in a math class since the late ’90s, and as luck would have it, it was a stats class. However…2 min read·Jan 31, 2021----
Melanie HilliardEl trabajo rusticoRumor has it that Al Capone and the notorious Purple Gang partied in the underground garage and rathskeller on the site of what is now…2 min read·Jan 24, 2021----
Melanie HilliardMy year in podcasts: 2020 editionArt, books, travel, technology, social justice, the list goes on. Like many of you, my interests cross a wide spectrum.3 min read·Jan 2, 2021----
