by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
I mopped my floor with zeal. This was how I knew my recent two week trip to Kentucky and Indiana, a combined book event and family reunion, was a success. Moments after getting home after sixteen hours of travel including layovers I was home, diving in to chores I...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, My Writing
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss Just as I was packing for my Portland book event, I got the call that a friend died. Jim was more than a friend. To my little girls, he was a hero that defended their right to safety...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Interviews
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s estimated that one in five Americans lives with a mental health condition. All of us know someone who struggles. But despite this, mental health too often remains a topic we don’t discuss until it’s too...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, My Writing
I saw the movie The Sense of An Ending recently, and this quote jumped out at me. “How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around us to challenge our account, to remind...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Interviews, Travel & Tourism
March 2017 Dr. Jane Wilson Haworth has been my virtual friend ever since our stories both appeared in this anthology. She eventually gave me I terrific book blurb that I included on the jacket of my memoir Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters. She...
by lameredith | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts, My Writing
March used to be one of those months for me that held dreadful anniversary dates. We all have those dates. Whether it’s the dreaded anniversary of a death, or a divorce anniversary, or maybe even a natural disaster like a hurricane, there are the dates that split our...
