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Melinda Lyons

How to handle terrible grief during ‘happy’ special occasions
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If you have just started retirement it's time for the fun to begin.
Lifestyle

Forget someday, how to have the time of your life now

Forget someday, how to have the time of your life now

'What in the world do you do with your time, now?' Melinda Lyons often gets asked, now she's retired.
What happens when you find you are suddenly alone?
Relationships

‘I found happiness after the loss of my partner, and you can too’

‘I found happiness after the loss of my partner, and you can too’

Finding a balance between honouring the past and moving on is a challenge.

About Melinda Lyons

Melinda Richarz Lyons earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of North Texas and has been a free lance writer for over forty years. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including Nashville Parent, Cats Magazine, True West, Chicken Soup for the Soul: True Love, Kids, Etc., Frontier Times, Reminisce, Cincinnati Family Magazine and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers. An award winning songwriter, she has also authored several books including the young readers novel, Murder at the Oaklands Mansion. Her non-fiction grief book, Crossing the Minefield, garnered a Royal Palm Literary Award and is included in grief support programs and bereavement library collections in all fifty states, including the Patient/Family Library at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her most recent work is the romance/mystery, Heir to a Secret. The Seventeen Dollar Murders will be released in the fall of 2017, and all books are available in both Kindle and paperback forms on www.amazon.com. She lives in Tyler, Texas and invites you to visit her website: http://www.melindalyons.com/.