Born and raised in the Midwest, Melissa has a penchant for growing her own food garden, haphazard traveling preferably near oceans, and avoiding winter.
Married with two children and a smelly dog, an average mom that appreciates the finer things in life ... while attempting to turn many of them into some organic version of their original self.
A lover of memoirs and historical fiction books she much prefers a hard cover to a paperback although she has a ridiculous amount of TBR titles on her kindle that is perpetually in need of charging.
When not attending a neighborhood book club chat or activities for her kids, Melissa blogs about current events, societal mishaps, family holidays, and bad customer service experiences.
Melissa is a new survivor of cancer and currently an autoimmune disease sufferer. Being thrust into the confusing world of inconsistent medical advice, misdiagnosis, inaccurate lab results and constant testing she has found a home within several online support groups that opened her eyes to what “normal and average” looks like in America.