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A New Chapter, Same Sunshine

May 2, 2026 By Melanie Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since I’ve written here.

Life has a way of doing that, not in a dramatic, everything-stops kind of way, but in the quieter way where seasons shift, priorities change, and the things you once updated regularly slowly fall into the background while real life takes center stage.

But I’ve been thinking about this space again.

About what it was when I started it back in 2009 – mostly product reviews, curiosity-fueled research, and a lot of sharing things I was learning along the way. It was a different season of life, but in a lot of ways, the same thread has always been there: I’ve always been someone who notices things, learns things, and wants to put words around them.

That part hasn’t changed.

What has changed is me.

I’m writing this now from a very different chapter—what I’ve come to think of as a midlife and more kind of season. Fuller, quieter in some ways, more intentional in others. I’m back in Florida, settled in Saint Augustine, where life often looks like sitting on my porch, doing the work I love, reading a good book, family woven through everything, and the ongoing curiosity of figuring out what’s next.

I’m still working as a sign language interpreter, still learning new things just because I can’t help myself, and still finding joy in the small rhythms of everyday life—books I can’t put down, walks when the air is just right, and the occasional day at the beach chasing that sunshine.

And somewhere amidst all of that, I realized I missed this place where I shared my stories and wrote new chapters.

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