by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Healing & Gratitude
This week, I enjoyed reading Sam Gentoku McCree’s piece on Ten Steps to a Grateful Life. Having a grateful life is a discipline. It’s not difficult for my mood to tumble this time of year. It’s dark in Alaska for much of the day. My energy dips just as my work chaos...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
It’s that time of year again. October. Domestic Violence Awareness Month. I decided to go to a presentation titled “Let’s Talk Prevention” put on by a social worker at one of Anchorage’s mental health hospitals. I should’ve taken the misplaced quotes as a sign. A stop...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
What’s going on in your world? I made an executive decision to cut back blogging to no less than twice monthly. Somewhere between work and home remodels, revision on an old project and the developing of a new one, I realized that something had to give. But in...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Interviews
I have mentioned before that Swimming with Maya is one of my favorite memoirs ever, so I was ecstatic when Eleanor Vincent agreed to be interviewed. Thank you, Ms. Vincent! As I lift May’s still warm and pliable fingers in mine, the instinctive mother’s...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
Were the good old days really that good? Not to Alaska resident Muriel Pfeil. In 1976, Muriel got into her car in downtown Anchorage, turned the key, and was blown to bits. Someone had planted a car bomb. At the time, Muriel was not much past forty and had been...
