About
I live in Halden, a small Norwegian town close to Sweden, with my beloved and our small son. Halden has everything that a small town should: a river, a harbour, a sixteenth century fortress, lakes, deer, wolves, pine forests, and a nuclear reactor.
I have a Masters in Medieval English Literatures from the University of York, and a PhD in Australian medievalism from the University of Leeds. I come from Adelaide. I work in a kindergarten, teaching English to Norwegian toddlers, as well as contract teaching English literature at University level when I can.
Michael takes many of the photos on this blog with his Nikon D90. We also have a little Canon S90 that takes pretty sweet photos too, of things like butterflies and ice crystals.
Betsy
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 9:11 pm
Hi Mel,
I know it has been a very long time and I didn’t even know you were in Halden! It looks magical from your photos. Several things reminded me of you recently and so I thought I would try to track you down. I had to pack the book with your poems the other day because I am moving back to America. My supervisor, Jane Hawkes, then told me she was going to Australia for several months, that reminded me of you too. And finally today I was invited to submit a proposal for the Australasian Victorian Studies Conference which is taking place in Adelaide!
Will you please email me when you have the time elizabeth.laing25@gmail.com because I would really like to re-connect. Sorry this seems to out of the blue!
With Best Wishes, Betsy McCormick
kateshrewsday
Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 8:14 am
Your new strap picture is utterly lovely, Meli:-)
Gabrielle Carey
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 at 9:22 am
Dear I’m not even sure who I am writing to,
I don’t use or understand blogs..I came across a reference to a PhD chapter that had something to do with Randolph Stow, about whom I am writing a book. I would love to chat with anyone who would like to chat about Stow.
Gabrielle
armagny
Monday, June 27, 2011 at 6:24 am
Thanks for popping into mine. Upon hearing you are a regular, I’ve added you to my ‘gnac’s list and will keep a passing watch on your familial adventures in Norway!
John Ganim
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 2:16 am
Dear Melanie,
I didn’t know you were in the US till I found your blog pictures. Felix is beautiful! If you find yourself in Southern California, let me know.
(I’ll be in Montana for a few days in August but will have grandchildren in tow.)
elizabethyon
Thursday, August 18, 2011 at 12:39 am
Hello! I’ve read the poems you’ve posted here and want to tell you how very much I enjoyed them. Lovely, lovely poems! Your style is elegant and spare, and says so much with quietness. Thank you.
meli
Friday, August 19, 2011 at 5:53 am
thank you!
Becca
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 6:25 am
Hi! I don’t know if this is the right place to get in contact with you, but I just want to say that I love your pictures. I actually found this blog through a Google images search that brought up this shot: http://norlight.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/paraglider.jpg. I am currently working on the staff of Stowaway magazine, a not-for-profit travel magazine that is produced as part of the capstone class for editing minors at BYU. My class is currently working on the fall issue of Stowaway, and we thought the image linked above would be perfect for our cover. One of our feature stories in this issue is about outdoor “falling” adventures such as skydiving, bungee jumping, and paragliding, and this image captures the spirit of our fall issue. Would you be willing to let us use this image? We would need a high-resolution version to make it work for the cover. Let me know what you think!
meli
Saturday, March 17, 2012 at 9:10 pm
That would be great! I’ve updated the photo to a higher resolution and emailed you…