by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Travel & Tourism
Have you ever had a chance meeting with someone that changed your way of thinking? My journey to Paris last month had been a long one. A five hour flight from Anchorage to Minnesota, a three hour layover, followed by an eight hour flight to Paris. By the time I got...
by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Travel & Tourism
How do you measure a good vacation? Is it the sights you’ve seen? The friends you’ve made? Or is it that you’re positively thrilled to return to your own routine of work, chores, and friends? However I measure it, I had a great time. I’m...
by lameredith | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts, Healing & Gratitude, Travel & Tourism
I’m in Italy this week, spending time with a cherished friend. Have you ever been the beneficiary of uncommon kindness from a random stranger? There is something special about going through a brutal time and finding that you have guardian angels who pop up out...
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...