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Kelly Meldrum
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Freelance Writer, Freelance
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Biography
Kelly Meldrum is a writer and mental health advocate who hopes to contribute to global conversations about mental healthcare and suicide prevention. Kelly wrote and edited copy as a marketing professional for over a decade. Her personal and reported essays have been published in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Motherly, and adoption.com. Her original tweets have appeared in Reader’s Digest and online in The Chicago Tribune, Babble, and Funny or Die. She is writing a memoir on living with mental illness in a family scarred by multi-generational suicide loss.
climate change and politics in New MexicoThe intersection of the oil and gas industry
fashion, fads
Content
By Kelly Meldrum| Today's Parent Verified Photo: iStockphoto I have always hated being tickled. When I was small, it was uncomfortable but tolerable. It didn’t invoke rage or make me want to kick, bite, hit, and scratch to defend myself as it does now. I simply didn’t like it and I said so. I grew up in the eighties in a family that required unquestioning respect of parents and elders. I learned that my opinions and preferences didn’t matter, and it was easiest for everyone if I was a good girl.
My son asks why, if heaven is so great and everything is so bad here, we don’t all just go to heaven. My heart skips.
By Kelly Meldrum| The (Toronto) Star Verified I’m waiting for my mom to finish getting ready for the wake. It’s early evening on a Tuesday in December, and the humid bathroom smells of Aqua Net hair spray. I sit on the closed toilet cradling a school picture in my palm. Mike and I had traded photos in the fall like I’d done with all my friends. On the back in blue ink I’d written, “Mike 1991-92” and in capital letters underlined with a squiggled line, “HOT!” Mom leans over the sink, applying mascara to her long lashes.
By Kelly Meldrum, Kimberly Yavorski| Motherly Verified Teaching kids to share is good for them and good for societyby Kelly MeldrumOn a gorgeous fall day, I drove down the streets of our upper middle class, suburban neighborhood, waving at strangers raking leaves and kids playing in the unseasonably warm weather. As I passed garage after garage, open and neatly organized, I noticed something that disgusted me about the culture in which we live.
Company Info
Freelance
Freelancer.com is the largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in the world, connecting over 81 million employers and freelancers across more than 247 countries. Founded in 2009 and based in Sydney, Australia, the platform allows employers to post jobs while freelancers can bid on these projects. It is publicly traded on the Australian Securities Exchange under the ticker ASX:FLN. The platform supports a variety of work categories, including software development, writing, design, and marketing. Freelancer.com also offers contests for creative work, where employers can award prize money to winning entries. Users can choose from different membership plans, including free and paid subscriptions, which provide various benefits. The mobile app enhances project management and communication for users on the go. With a diverse customer base that includes individuals, small businesses, and large enterprises, Freelancer.com plays a significant role in the global online economy.
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States