Enough : Living Your Life in the Right Measure

by Melinda Haynes

Peace, as it turns out, does not come from fixing everything.
It comes from carrying only what is ours.

Enough is for anyone who feels exhausted by excess, unsure where responsibility ends, or weary of living as though more is always demanded. It offers no formulas, no affirmations, and no shortcuts—only a steadier way of seeing.

Life lived in the right measure does not become smaller.
It becomes manageable.
And that is enough.

37 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 15, 2026

About the author

Melinda Haynes is an American novelist. She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For much of her adult life she was a painter. In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, Mother of Pearl, while living in a mobile home in Grand Bay, Alabama. Melinda Haynes currently resides in Mobile, Alabama with her husband, Ray. Her writing has a close relationship to Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s.