by lameredith | Mar 10, 2021 | Child Abduction, Domestic Violence, Persistence U podcast show notes
Recorded on the 31st anniversary of my leaving an abusive marriage, the journey out of poverty and domestic violence required some heavy -lifting as well as finding the right kind of information and support. Four years after that, my daughter’s kidnapping...
by lameredith | Sep 30, 2020 | Child Abduction, Domestic Violence
You might think that someone who’s been a domestic violence victim-turned advocate- that person who later wrote about it, might just be the right one to put on speed-dial when someone you know is being abused. Not so. I’ve received more emails and Facebook messages...
by lameredith | Apr 29, 2020 | Child Abduction, Family & Celebrations, Healing & Gratitude
It’s well over a month into the worldwide hunkering down. How are you filling your time? It’s been a perfect time to pare down the embarrassing quantities of photo albums and old letters of the past forty-plus years that I’ve...
by lameredith | Dec 20, 2019 | Child Abduction
“Who do you think will play my part?” My dentist, Dr. McBratney, was helping me envision my happily ever after, just days after my children had been kidnapped and taken out of country after I’d arrived for my scheduled check-up. I had just wept a puddle of tears and...
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 | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts, Domestic Violence
It’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As I prep for a few book events, including a FaceTime conversation with a Florida book group, The question I get asked the most is always How are the girls now? And just after that, Do your daughters mind you writing and...
