by lameredith | | Classic Posts, Healing & Gratitude
This week, I’m a bundle of nerves. I don’t know if it’s information overload about all that is wrong with the world today, upcoming travels, or just too much caffeine. What I do know is there are certain blog links I read that help pacify, even...
by lameredith | | Child Abduction, Classic Posts
Did you have the chance to watch young Sean Goldman on television Friday night on NBC? He’s the adorable little boy who was snatched from the states by his Brazilian mother in 2005. She died four years later. Still, her family refused to return Sean home to his...
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...