by lameredith | May 31, 2019 | Healing & Gratitude
I’ve been listening to audiobook WHAT COMES NEXT AND HOW TO LIKE IT by Abigail Thomas, a terrific memoir that nudges me to savor the large and small happenings of life in the moment. So here’s what’s happening right now; my cats are chasing one...
by lameredith | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations, Healing & Gratitude
My girls, mom, and me. Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we always trying to return to them. By Michele Filgate in What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About. I emailed a friend in recently to bid her Happy Mother’s Day. Normally sunny, her response caught me...
by lameredith | Dec 18, 2018 | Healing & Gratitude, Uncategorized
My return from South America was promptly eclipsed by the massive November 30th earthquake here in Alaska. I’d landed in Los Angeles from a brief layover in Peru when I turned on my phone to find a flood of texts. The first was from my youngest daughter, giving me a...
by lameredith | Nov 10, 2018 | Healing & Gratitude, Travel & Tourism
The reasons I get so nervous are many. I’m about to leave for South America in a few days. By myself. It will be continent 6/7 for me, and I’m nearing my goal of finishing the research for a travel memoir and companion guide book for older, non-wealthy women...
by lameredith | Jul 31, 2018 | Family & Celebrations, Healing & Gratitude
I’d like to share some moments of beauty in my weekend. I joined friends for a gorgeous kayaking trip for several hours in Prince William Sound this past weekend. Paddling through cool waters with nothing but the sound of glaciers calving was as calming as a...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Healing & Gratitude, My Writing
I surprised myself by getting a little protective of my estranged mother at a book event recently as I answered readers questions. While my mother made a complicated and fascinating character in my memoir as she did in life, I know it wasn’t only her children she...