by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
It’s easy to take family for granted. I do it all the time. I read the story of Minka and Betty Jane this week, a mother-daughter pair separated by adoption for nearly 80 years before reuniting, and I couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like if...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays! I’m revising one of my very first posts, written almost exactly two years ago. Though I will continue to be committed to reconnecting with lost loved ones, issues of child abduction, and domestic violence, in 2014...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
My worst nightmare was always this: I’d search for my kidnapped daughters relentlessly, and just before finding them, one or both would be killed in a fatal accident. I nearly missed finding my father in 1985. I found him when he was seventy and I was twenty, and...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
How are you doing during this holiday season? I’ll admit I’ve darkened a number of holiday parties and Christmases over the years. While others around me delight in their family connections and memories of holidays past, I’ve taken the time to revel in awful family...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
What does a miracle look like? Scroll down to see reunion of Cinday Murray and her brother Robert Williamson, separated since their parents divorce in the 70’s and both actively serving in the Navy. “We’ve had all this time we could...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one might not leave such stillness– Emily Dickinson. Today, I got a Facebook message from a friend sharing the story of Wild author Cheryl Strayed finding her long lost half-sister as reported to the National...