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About me

Melissa Miles McCarter lives in Ironton, MO with her husband William Matthew McCarter, who is a fellow writer and college professor, her stepson, her English bulldogs Boss Hog and Daisy, and her two cats, Milo and Catspurr. She is currently a doctoral student in rhetoric and composition and her main focus is postfeminism and composition studies. She recently published her first book "Insanity: a Love Story" through Fat Daddy's Farm. It available through Amazon.com as a paperback and in Kindle form. She writes about mental illness, personal experiences, postfeminism and other topics that are important to her any given moment. Her fiction has been published in various publications including Ceteris Paribus, Monadock and Doorknobs & Bodypaint. She can be reached at melissa_miles@yahoo.com

Briefly me

My passion is ...

my family

I know too much about ...

postfeminism

My parents always told me ...

read

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

spending time with my family

Why I write ...

to understand the world

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

it matters the day

My first job ...

babysitting

My best moment ...

when I am nurturing

My inspiration ...

my family

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Home & Garden > Lawn & Landscaping How to build a waterfall for a garden pond: 3 of 5

The essential feature of a waterfall garden is a waterfall. Outside of choosing the plants for your garden, the most important aspect is engineering the type of waterfall you can afford or will look good in your background. You can start from scratch and create the base of your waterfall with a pond—to keep the water in the pond, you use a liner or kid’s wading pool that is recessed into the landscape. If you have a dry creek bed you can use that or dig yourself your own water hole. Creating your own pond with an affordable liner is a great option....
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