by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Healing & Gratitude
Editor’s note: The connections I’ve maintained with my childhood friends taught me how a lot about how family could be, and equipped me to find my missing family. I met Susan Sommer when we were in grade school, and am so pleased to have her as my first guest...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
Today is cause for a celebration. Exactly twenty three years ago, after nearly 70 hours of labor, my youngest daughter Meredith was born. At home. The only attendants were her toddler-sister and her alarmed father. The midwife set to deliver her had left to...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Family & Celebrations
There are newer shows now. Like Long Lost Family. I boo-hoo, every time I see it. My update since the first time I posted this: I published my memoir. And because I did, I met a still-missing brother and cousins and, more recently, had contact with an uncle I’d...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
psu.edu Tonight, I went to the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s (UAA) screening of Telling Amy’s Story, a documentary sponsored by Verizon Wireless after their long-time Pennsylvania employee was shot at point blank range in her home by her husband while her parents...